HELP-- Stop Taskbar Popping up.

Zinerith said:

I've gone through all the advice in this thread, as well as everything I can find online. Still, the problem persists. Is there anything else I can do to solve this problem (Zoom is the main culprit, and I have all their notifications toggled off in their settings as well as my computer's. I even changed the registries to disable them. Still, they somehow manage to flash the taskbar, making it pop up every single time someone types literally anything in chat, even when I have chat as hidden as possible)

Hi Zinerith, welcome to Ten Forums.


Have you tried this suggestion below from TairikuOkami from post #7? So far, this is the only fix I've been able to locate that shows partial success with some users.

A picture is worth a thousand words, is there any chance of capturing this delinquent taskbar behavior on video or at the least, a screenshot? Please post whatever is possible to capture, so we can see it. Thanks and I'll keep searching for a solution.

I've installed Evernote on my PC and have yet to see this behavior.

TairikuOkami said:

Try to set those 2 entries to 0:

Code:

reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v "ForegroundFlashCount" /t REG_SZ /d "0" /f
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v "ForegroundLockTimeout" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f

Disable Flashing Taskbar buttons or icons in Windows 10/8/7

Please update your system specs and include the complete winver. This popping taskbar feature may very well be OS version related.

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You may have explored these options, however; we have no method to know without asking, please be patient.

Zoom claims to offer control of notifications including mute all during a meeting. Have you explored these settings?



Changing settings in the desktop client or mobile app – Zoom Help Center


This may be Zoom just repeating the same info here.

Changing chat notification settings – Zoom Help Center


This is the same solution as presented above by TairikuOkami with a slight modification.
I've seen this solution on numerous sites suggesting that you set the value for both 'ForegroundFlashCount & ForegroundLockTimeout' to 0, however; more users seemed to be successful with setting only the 'ForegroundFlashCount' to 1. This will allow the notification to flash once instead of 7 times.
Many users who set 'ForegroundFlashCount' to 0, complained of the same continuous flashing.

Code:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

This is the Administrative Command Prompt version to set the value to 1.

Code:

reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v "ForegroundFlashCount" /t REG_SZ /d "1" /f

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Please keep in mind that this registry tweak is only for the 'Current User' and if you're using another or multiple users, these modifications will be required for the other profiles.
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