Panic Mode

I remembered.. I figured I'd answer my own question for anybody else who has this problem in the future. It's the windows seven areo display that, for some reason, screws it. If you're running off of a radeon 7850M video card and when you open your viewer you get a solid black screen, a solid white screen or a two toned screen this is the problem. Go to control panel > apperance and personalization > personalize and select one of the "Basic and High Contrast" themes. I didn't even have to shut down the frozen viewer. It insantly loaded correctly. I have no idea why this problem exists..

I bought my HP Envy 17 a year and half ago. Imagine my surprise when I tried to open second life and got the black and or white screen of "your video card is not compatible". I googled and dug through here and found some loop hole.. a registry hack or something pretty easy that allowed me to log on. Windows updated. It erased what I had done, I can't remember what I'd done and now can't seem to find the info anywhere. Can ANYBODY help me?