I forgot to mention that before then they worked just fine, and then when I would run any dosbox game or scummvm game they would load up I would see the windows 7 taskbar then they would minimize and most of the time I couldn't get them maximized or back in full screen and would have to end-task , then my wallpaper would disappear, I would need to restart the pc it would fix the issue doing this but then, mins to hours later it happened again, and ran a few viruis antimalware scans (housecall ( which did find a trojan in the free fearcombat multiplayer game which I removed the game and trojan), malware anti-bytes, and even updated my video card drivers. I when I started installing / running these game they worked just fine, seems like it only effected with dosbox & scummvn as far as I know, but what do you mean strings, btw I'm running them from either d-fiend reloaded and a few are for steam.