Well, I know it's not static, it is a bird tweet.

And on the processes thing, I would have no idea what a weird process would be.

After restarting my computer about 5 times over the past 10 minutes (due to my, err...dial-up "issues" :chop, it's not doing it anymore.

Edit: And if all else succeeds, wouldn't you want me to uninstall, not reinstall, Windows and replace it with Gentoo Linux?