Windows Vista: Start button keeps flashing
Start button keeps flashing
by StickMaker - 8/27/08 3:54 PMThis is on my Acer Aspire 5100 notebook running Vista HP with SP1. Recently this started; the little round START button flashes on whatever window happens to be onscreen. A VERY fast flash. I've done all I could but it still flashes. Any suggestions?
We may need a screenshot.
by R. Proffitt
- 8/28/08 7:45 AM
In reply to: Start button keeps flashing by StickMaker
Not of the flashing button but what button you are asking about. In Vista the start button vanished with just ONE and only one button on the bottom left of the toolbar which many call what was the start button.
Here's a picture of what we see today -> http://www.cnet.com.au/story_media/339282210/vista-start-menu.jpg
See the Vista flag on the bottom left? Now tell us what button you see flashing.
Bob
flashing button
by StickMaker - 8/28/08 8:38 AM In reply to: We may need a screenshot. by R. Proffitt
Thank you, Bob; here is a screenshot. It is the round button with the Win logo.
Well, so much for that; I don't see a place to insert a picture in this forum. I have set Vista back to look like XP; got rid of all that "fancy" stuff; I want performance over "pretty" so mine does look a little different from yours.
Even as I type this, that button keeps flashing on this Firefox window.
While we can't post pictures many
by R. Proffitt - 8/28/08 8:42 AM
In reply to: flashing button by StickMaker
Use Photobucket.com to put up a screen shot or such. Just edit it a little to point to the item that is flashing.
Blinking Start Button
by Entil - 5/12/09 6:03 AM In reply to: While we can't post pictures many by R. Proffitt
I'm having the same issue. I tried to take a screen shot again and again, but I'm having no luck. I'll try and describe it. I have my taskbar set on auto hide, and set to classic windows. When the task bar is hide, the a phantom Start Button, just the square shape of the start button with the windows logo, nothing else... will flash all by itself for a second, almost as if the Start Button was a tool tip that pops up when your mouse is over something. The button looks exactly like the actually start button on the task bar, not different in shape, size, and is actually in the same spot where the start button would be if the task bar wasn't auto hide. It flashes quickly, sometimes once, and sometime twice, usually three times. It doesn't actually do anything or cause issues, but it is very distracting!
Just for your research.
by R. Proffitt - 5/12/09 6:32 AM
In reply to: Blinking Start Button by Entil
http://forums.pcpitstop.com/lofiversion/index.php/t61261.html notes the old flashing items in the taskbar and what we used to do to kill the notifications.
Now how to do that in Vista?
Flashing Phantom Start Button
by Entil - 5/13/09 1:03 PM In reply to: Just for your research. by R. Proffitt
I've played with it some... nothing but shutting off auto hide works. I decided to expand the task bar, it can be enlarged to half the size of the desktop. Now the flashing Start Button is still where it would be at the new englarged task bar... so I have it flashing on the left, half way up my monitor.
... and a note, I just reset my pc to factory image restore, and not sure why it is happening.
Any ideas?
Flashing start button above auto-hidden taskbar's start butt
by yourweldguru - 9/28/09 6:13 AM In reply to: Flashing Phantom Start Button by EntilTried the usual un-hiding the auto-hidden taskbar, even turning off and on the hide unused icons, turning off amnd back on quick start icons, but until I disabled NIS2009's 'Advanced Protection', again nothing seemed to stop the flashing start button appearing just above the auto-hidden taskbar's start button. Again, I had even tried system restore (first a day back, then two, then a week), but until I disabled that feature in NIS2009, nothing worked. Wouldn't surprize me at all if everyone affected is running NIS.
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