Windows 8.1: Right click menu on taskbar disappears when I mouseover

Hey everyone!
I just updated to 8.1 and since then, I noticed a little problem with my task bar. Every time I right click on an icon on my task bar, the menu disappears. Also, if I have two windows open and I go to change from one to the other, the whole page disappears
unless I layer it to where the page I want is open and the others are not. The only way I have found around this is if when I right click on an icon and then proceed to left click and drag my pointer up to the menu.
I hope this made sense. I really would like to get this problem solved because it is very annoying.
Thank you all!

Hi,
If this problem occures as soon as system upgrade to Windows 8.1. Its probably caused by driver problem. You can try to reinstall Mice driver for test.
In addition, you can try to boot into safe mode to test this problem if it occures.
Roger Lu
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WBIG table of frozen, point-in-time snapshots of Enrolled Students by Category/term/pidm. "Category" is historically, and commonly, our CENSUS snapshot; but, can also describe other frequencies, or categorizations, such as: End-of-Term (EOT), etc. Note: Prior to this table existing, Census-snapshots were stored in SATURN.SNAPREG_ALL. All FALL and SPRING term records prior-to-and-including Spring 2013 ('201230') have been migrated into this table -- EXCEPT a few select prior to Fall 2004 (200410) records where there are duplicates on term/pidm. NO Summer snapshots existed in SNAPREG_ALL, but were queried and stored retroactively (including terms prior to Spring 2013) for the purpose of future on-going year-over-year analysis and comparison.
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