File menu disappears when I switch applications.

Hello,
I recently purchased Illustrator and I have a bizarre problem with the menu bar.
In Illustrator, whenever I switch to a different application on my PC, e.g. switch to Outlook or Excel which are already running, the file menu disappears!
As I hover my mouse over where the menu should be, it comes back bit at a time.
Has anyone encountered this before?
I’m on a laptop running Win7 in x64.
Kind regards,
-Will.

Update your graphics driver/ check its configuration.
Mylenium

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