Windows 10 April 2018 Update now available Monday, April 30

You're welcome. I used to try to download and install all that stuff too

Eddie Doc said:

A few hours ago I manually checked for updates and the 1803 update appeared. After it had downloaded and installed, the restart process took about 40-50 minutes. Everything seems to be working ok. Now to do a backup. :)

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As you can see it is pretty easy for questions to get lost in this thread. Maybe yours was answered and I missed it.

It has been suggested to start a new thread when needing help so members see the question and can respond to the topic.

Sorry I misread.

storageman said:

Yes - the Task bar does it along with a majority of the Icons on the Desktop. 1709 didn't do that. But I'm thinking it maybe refreshing to insure that Icons don't get scrambled like they were doing in the past. There are several threads on this subject in the General section.

Exactly same here. I was using a giant recycle bin icon but have since changed it to the smallest it can get, as well I moved it to the far corner of a different monitor where I won't see it refresh unless I am looking at it directly. I am tinkering with different looking taskbar (transparent, clear, blurred and normal) to see which is best to avoid it showing as much.

Thanks to all who have replied. I was sure I was not alone.

Access Denied said:

Exactly same here. I was using a giant recycle bin icon but have since changed it to the smallest it can get, as well I moved it to the far corner of a different monitor where I won't see it refresh unless I am looking at it directly. I am tinkering with different looking taskbar (transparent, clear, blurred and normal) to see which is best to avoid it showing as much.

Thanks to all who have replied. I was sure I was not alone.

I wonder whether it's the graphics card resetting itself.

kado897 said:

I wonder whether it's the graphics card resetting itself.

I cannot find anything in Event Viewer that shows what it is. No events are logged when it happens. Others have the same refresh so I really have no idea why some do and some do not.

Access Denied said:

I cannot find anything in Event Viewer that shows what it is. No events are logged when it happens. Others have the same refresh so I really have no idea why some do and some do not.

There was a bug in an NVIDIA driver a while back that used to do noticeable refreshes in Chrome. Very annoying.