MacOS – Finder keeps presenting blank window

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About the 3rd or 5th time after I relaunch finder or reboot and choose a new folder, the finder windows presents this image

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Once this happens I can no longer interact with the window besides dragging it.I recently repaired disk permissions, and it is still happening. I am using the latest version of OSX Mavericks. Any ideas on what is going on?

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Looks like I found the problem. I created a new blank user and logged in there and it didn't happen, so I figured the problem had to be software related. Turns out it was an application that recently updated called "display maid" which was causing the problem. After i disabled that app, everything was fine.

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