SOLVED Taskbar icons disappear momentarily and then reload

[Bif]

Peculiar behaviour lately has surfaced,occasionally without rhyme or reason the taskbar icons disappear (sometimes all,and sometimes a few) for only a moment and then repopulate.I'm not running anything in particular and have my background processes down to a minimum.No ill effect from this happening would just like to find out why,I've thought about rebuilding/refreshing the icon cache but not sure that's going to solve the problem..or maybe it might.
Any id-ers?

I'll wait for a reply....

 

[Trouble]

Have you looked at the Event Viewer, either application or system Windows logs to see if you see any reference to app hangs or app crashes?

 

[Bif]

I could do this but I haven't a clue what Im looking for or what any of those events mean,could you give me the 5 cent tour and what some of the things I should be looking for?...it's all Greek to me unfortunately Trouble.

 

[Trouble]

basically you would be looking for anything indicating a warning (yellow triangle) or error (red circle with exclamation sign)
Inside Windows Logs -> Application or Windows Logs -> System

 

[Bif]

Thanks,I will giver a go later tonight and post anything questionable I find.

Cheers

 

[Trouble]

if you can zero in on a time when the incident(s) occur it may help you zero in on the event in the event viewer as they are generally listed chronologically

 

[Bif]

if you can zero in on a time when the incident(s) occur it may help you zero in on the event in the event viewer as they are generally listed chronologically

Well,looked into things a little deeper per your suggestion and found that HP client services was hanging and not loading properly,so I disabled it all together in services as it serves no purpose at all and all is good.......so far.

a double Scotch for the man!


Cheers Trouble

 

[Trouble]

NIce find.
Make mine an Old Pulteney 21 Year Old Single Malt if you please.

 

[Bif]

I've never tried Old Pulteney,must look into this!..