I've recently started to experience a screen corruption issue in Visual Studio 2005 when running in on XP in VMware.   It manifests itself by not drawing the dataset designer tables when a dataset is opened - the screen instead displays the last image shown (e.g. a dialog box or the last screen of code).  If you click around, the individual tables will appear eventually as you click on them, but it's more or less guesswork.This example shows that the datatable is displaying over the last page shown, essentially, the background is not refreshing, and the datatables only appear when you manage to click on them.SolutionThe solution is to disable hardware acceleration  in windows.   R/Click desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot), and change the Hardware acceleration to the third step.This fixes the display.As it has only started recently, and no software has been installed apart from windows updates, , I can only think that it was a windows update / driver update from windows update that changed things.    Anyway, it's working now, and hopefully this will be useful to someone.[tags]visual studio, vmware, xp, display corruption[/tags]