I believe I know what the problem is, which I ran into, and it is very irritating. The swishing lines that you see are the sony text edit FX window minimizing UNDERNEATH the windows status bar. Try shrinking your windows status bar to a tiny line, and you should see a bit of it sticking there; try to grab it. If you CANNOT grab it, you will have to relocate your windows status bar to the left or right side of the screen and THEN you will be able to find and grab the minimized FX window. I went nuts just like you until I thought about what was happening. Why it happened I am not sure, but believe me, it’s under the windows status bar.