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I don't mean "blinking" as in notifying the user, I mean that the whole taskbar seems to do a "reload" of sorts, where the icons completely vanish for like half a second (leaving a blank taskbar) and then return.
Is this a background system update triggering a restart of explorer.exe? I surely can't be the only one who has noticed/experienced this behavior.
T Nierath
Posted 2018-05-13T08:03:15.990
Reputation: 389
If another task is using a lot of memory/CPU then explorer may have insufficient resources to redraw the taskbar in a timely fashion when requested to do so. – DavidPostill – 2018-05-13T08:19:59.380
Plausible, but I don't think it's a load problem. Everything stays snappy and everything else displays correctly. – T Nierath – 2018-05-13T08:44:59.057
Does the taskbar seem to freeze or crash right before it blinks & reloads? Maybe that's what it's doing, just crashing – Xen2050 – 2018-05-13T09:11:04.173
I don't think it's a crash. Notification area and such is not affected. Could be a redraw, but the thing is quite infrequent. I'm just curious really, it's not much of a nuisance. – T Nierath – 2018-05-13T09:19:13.830
I’ve seen the same behavior, and even wondered as to what Windows was doing. But it is so insignificant, I have never looked any further. – Appleoddity – 2018-05-13T13:10:48.387
I agree, at least I'm not the only person who has observed it. – T Nierath – 2018-05-13T14:11:45.610
Simlar issue...https://superuser.com/questions/1322265/my-taskbar-in-windows-10-is-blinking-frequently
– Moab – 2018-05-13T18:57:42.730