Hello, and thank you to anyone who can possibly help me figure out this problem I'm having with blender. installed everything on a windows 7 professional 64 bit system. followed install directions to a T. Blender starts up with the borders and logo's but no background or UI controls When I minimize and bring back up still have borders but solid black filled work area still no UI or work area displayed. If i drag my mouse around inside the box, different icons for work pop up as i mouse over them. Observe Screenshots Display At Startup: Blender On Startup Display After Minimize: Blender After Minimize System Specs: Windows 7: 64 Bit Professional Processor: AMD Phenom II x4 940 (3.00 GHz) Ram: 8 GB Video: NVidia GeForce GTX 460 Video Drivers: 8.17.12.7533 (Most Up to date) So far I have spent 3 days uninstalling, reinstalling, rebooting pc, disk defrag after each install item. I have no clue what is causing this. Never had these problems when i was still running Win XP (curses my Westwood college making me update my OS) Any help would be appreciated. Sometimes a new thought or fresh set of eyes helps.