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Noticed this problem began just a couple of days ago.
Basically what happens is every 30 seconds or so, the icons on the taskbar turn blank and refresh themselves.
The same happens with the icons on the desktop page. I have Microsoft Security Essentils Security and ran a scan yet it turned up nothing.
Also ran a scan using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and it to turned up nothing.
Also Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, and they all found nothing.

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Genuine Intel(R)Celeron CPU 900 @ 2.20 GHz 219 MHz
Installed Memory (RAM) : 2.00 GB
64 Bit operating system

The refreshing usually doesn't take more than a second or two but every now and then windows will crash and reset itself. Also, sometimes it gets stuck refreshing itself and that is quite annoying.

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See if turning off "Aero" stops it.

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Aero is turned off, I have never had it turned on.

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Update your grahic drivers.


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There is no updates available through windows update, i have been on to hp website and downloaded latest driver, but it says its allready got the latest one.

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Load it in safe mode and see if it continues wink

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No it does not do it in safe mode

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Doubt it'll be something malicious. Try killing off processes until you hit one that stops the problem and then stop that process from loading on startup with msconfig.


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Doubt it'll be something malicious. Try killing off processes until you hit one that stops the problem and then stop that process from loading on startup with msconfig.


Then run a decent Virus removal tool.

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Perhaps you can enlighten us and let us have your nominations for a 'decent virus removal tool'.


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This refreshing has now stopped, I set it back to factory via recovery partion.
All seems well now, except I have all the shite that hp load on it to take off.

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