August 2, 20232 yr Author 2 hours ago, Gogolathome said: May I suggest good backup software in case a system restore is unavailable? I use Macrium Reflect 8 on my Windows computers and it saved my life multiple times and it is really fast too. In fact it is so reliable for me that I can experiment a lot with my computer and roll back in an instant. Thanks for the suggestion. In the past I bought Acronis but that one time I needed it it would not reinstall the image …. I will take a look at Macriun Reflect. 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
August 2, 20232 yr Author 29 minutes ago, Mace said: Oh, well I hope that solves it. I was about to give you a suggestion about doing a taskkill via cmd prompt but nevermind. Don't do it. 😃 How were you able to get Windows to let you re-download an already-downloaded update? Because I did a system restore just to just before I installed. So it must be no longer installed . 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
August 8, 20232 yr (KB5029263) Windows update was automatically installed today. LIke GSalden, I had the blinking desktop and no program icons. I did like one of the methods above and restored the desktop to normal. Otherwise, I would have had to reinstall Windows. Control Alt Delete for taskmanager, hold down the shift key and click the restart button instead of clicking to start taskmanager. Computer reboots to a special screen where you can use system restore, or you can remove the Quality Updates (never the Features Updates). Windows then removes the quality update and reboots, and it reinstalls those Quality Update(s) that it has just removed. And the blinking goes away and all is normal. I have had to do this same thing for many months, whenever a new Cumulative Update For Windows (Quality Update) is imposed. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
August 8, 20232 yr The blinking looks like the windows desktop wallpaper trying to put itself on the screen, but can't. Maybe this error has something to do with how your desktop "background" wallpaper settings are configured. Or maybe it's a problem with the Nvidia driver not starting up with a new Windows update. Most people do not have this issue. EDIT: On a system reboot, the desktop background image is loaded before the desktop icons are loaded. So, if the background loading can't complete, then maybe the desktop program icons and the taskbar cannot be loaded. And the file named exlorer.exe cannot yet run. . Edited August 8, 20232 yr by Fielder 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
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