Windows 11 - Desktop Icons blinking

Posted by np0523@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 19 comments

We have been migrating domain joined computers to entra. A small amount of users are reporting desktop icons blinking(flickering). Anyone ever see this?

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Powerful_Business241@reddit

Estava com esse mesmo problema e percebi que era o Microsoft Edge. Ao finalizar o processo pelo gerenciador de tarefas, os icones pararam de piscar.

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Easy_Purpose_8784@reddit

Gracias, era el edge, lo demas no funiono

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I just ran into this issue after using Profwiz for an AzureAD to AzureAD profile migration. Already using the latest version of Profwiz. Tried disconnecting and reconnecting OneDrive account, still persists. Anyone find a fix other than a new user profile?

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PiscisSama0@reddit

Ayer tuve el mismo problema y tras borrar la cache de los iconos y hacer todo lo que veía solo me sirvió una cosa. Estos pasos son los que seguí, espero que os funcione.

Usar administrador PWS, Deshabilitar UCPD

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UCPD" -Name "Start" -Value 4 -Force

Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskName '\Microsoft\Windows\AppxDeploymentClient\UCPD velocity'

Despues Reiniciar el equipo, Necesario para que se aplique

Entrar en el editor de registros y eleminar las siguientes claves (si alguna no esta salta a la siguiente)

Computer\HKEY_USERS\<the user sid>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http

Computer\HKEY_USERS\<the user sid>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\https

Computer\HKEY_USERS\<the user sid>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\pdf

Computer\HKEY_USERS\<the user sid>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf

Despues iniciar de nuevo UCPD con el administradore de PWS

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UCPD" -Name "Start" -Value 1 -Force

Enable-ScheduledTask -TaskName '\Microsoft\Windows\AppxDeploymentClient\UCPD velocity'

Y volver a reiniciar

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Wrong_Hurry7041@reddit

Não, fiz os passos sugeridos e segue o mesmo problema, infelizmente.

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Greedy-Average3722@reddit

I've tried everything I could and it turned out TPM was the culprit.

Follw the steps

Log out from all of MS related programs.
press win+r
type tpm.msc
Click "Clear TPM"
Reboot
Log in again on MS related programs

Leave the feed-back please.

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Nizbawt@reddit

Same issue. Just doing some test runs and I am seeing this issue and haven't figured it out yet.

- Explorer.exe seems to at least be tangentially related as it is showing increased CPU usage.
- Logging in with a local profile does not have this behavior.
- sfc /scannow doesn't help
- Turning off indexing doesn't seem to help

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np0523@reddit (OP)

Actually solved the issue. After user profile recreated issue is resolved.

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Sweeren@reddit

Can I know how do you approach on new user profile creation? The purpose of using ProfWiz is to preserve user data and configurations. If ProfWiz is causing the issue I need to know how do I set up new profile with the same data and config as an alternative.

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Nizbawt@reddit

Yeah I'm trying to avoid a full profile wipe. Fresh profiles so far do not seem to be affected.

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AmazedSpoke@reddit

Pause or quit OneDrive and check if they're still flashing.

I don't know the fix but that's been the cause for some of mine.

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ubyte@reddit

It inisitally resolved it but a reboot and it is doing it again.

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jibay42@reddit

For a customer, I used Profwiz to migrate the local session to an AD session, and my desktop icons flickered as if I were refreshing (F5). Any ideas?

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serwer-z-kartofla@reddit

There's a new version of ProfWiz, re-run with it and the flickering is gone!

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Icy_Palpitation_6853@reddit

Idolo da instituição, mandei bala e deu certo realmente na nova versão

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ChickenFit72@reddit

Anch'io ho lo stesso problema e vorrei riprovare con l'ultima versione che ho trovato (24.8.1296). Quando dici "riesegui" cosa intendi? Perché attualmente il profilo è già stato convertito con il nuovo dominio. Devo mettere il PC fuori dominio e poi selezionare il profilo che mi propone?

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Moist_Branch7423@reddit

Estou com o mesmo problema, fiz o mesmo processo e está piscando.

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analogscott@reddit

I've been migrating computers into a domain. i only have 120 and have about half done. I had a machine with blinking icons a week ago. I hadn't seen this problem up until now. Today i ran across a second machine doing the same. I also use Profwiz to migrate the local sessions to an AD sessions. I'm working through the troubleshooiting for this. I'm watching this thread and will chime in if i run across any solutions or ideas.

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serwer-z-kartofla@reddit

There's a new version of ProfWiz, re-run with it and the flickering is gone!