random white box on my desktop...

maybe this should be moved to windows software. but i dont think so because i belive this has somthing to do with the alienware software or osd manager. how do i fix this? (i have service pack 2)

 

Try changing the resolution and colour schemes.. if that fails to work make sure the pixels are not miscoloured.

 

Oh and, it may be an idea to hide your illegal stuff.. you know, in-case.

 

nothing on that desktop is technically illegal but thanks. i ended the osdmanager.exe process and that ended the box. but do i need that? how do i completly disable it or fix it?

 

Limewire itself isn't illegal (In all countries that I know of), but most of the stuff it does is.
It's like having a (licensed) gun is legal, but walking out and shooting people with it is.
It's fine to use it to hunt (or download files from your friends PCs that they made) but mass murder (streaming copyrighted MP3s and films) is illegal

 

osdmanager.exe is your On Screen Display utility. Without it your touch keys won't likely work, dialogs for adjusting volume, enabling/disabling stealth/BT/Wifi will not show, and you probably won't be able to change the colour of your keyboard.

P.S. there is no SP2 for Vista.

my recommendation is to update the OSD utility from the Alienware site, even simply uninstalling it, then reinstalling it could fix the issue.

a point of note: they recommend to have the OSD util in before the Command centre, so you may need to uninstall both, reinstall the OSD, then command centre for everything to work as-intended.

good luck!

 

I've had that happen to me when there is a problem with OSD. A simple restart fixes it.