Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10
Started by Max33Verstappen
Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 19 October 2022, 16:42 |
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Please refer to the images below for details (the fps of the GIFs in the attachments are not high enough to reflect every blink of the icon, but they are enough to present the issue).
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 19 October 2022, 22:19 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 519 |
It is possible that in your case the issue is caused by the animation and other effects that you have in your taskbar.
Also, we have recently fixed a couple of things with the taskbar graph. Please try the latest build as it might work better for you.
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 20 October 2022, 02:47 |
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It's strange. I've already used the latest official one when I run it on Windows 10(22h2 19045.2130). Now I re-downloaded both the official and the pre-release (the timestamp of the official one is newer than the pre-release one).
Tested on another Windows 11 laptop(21h2 22000.1098), and the result is:
Am I doing something wrong?
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 20 October 2022, 09:43 |
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Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 20 October 2022, 13:30 |
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Again, I tried it on two Windows 10 machines, the blinking issue occurs on both machines. So I really don't know what's going on.
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 20 October 2022, 14:18 |
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As far as I know it is not a standard Windows functionality, so maybe there is a third-party app that is contributing to the flicker?
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 20 October 2022, 23:27 |
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And another Windows 10 machine I tested doesn't have either of these 2 apps installed. Don't recall there're any other pieces of software that interfere with the taskbar. So, pretty weird.
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 21 October 2022, 13:03 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 519 |
It looks like you have numerous apps placing their icons on the taskbar, so it's likely that one of them is interfering.
If you really want to get to the bottom of this, I would recommend starting from a clean Windows installation, may be in a virtual machine. Then add the same apps one by one until you get the taskbar to flicker, so we will know what is causing it.
Otherwise, you may simply deactivate the taskbar graph and use the notification area icon instead.
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 22 October 2022, 03:59 |
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With about 7 icons in the tray (hidden), there's almost no visible flickering (still sporadically some) when one icon is blinking in the tray by design. But when rapidly clicking the "Show hidden icons" button, the issue gets more severe.
And when there are only 2~3 icons (except the system ones), it becomes very hard to reproduce the issue (I didn't record it). So I guess on a freshly installed system, it's next to impossible to reproduce.
The new implementation in 7.0.3 may have certain technical limitations to cause this maybe? Because 7.0.2 and prior don't suffer from this.
Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 22 October 2022, 09:42 |
Admin Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 3 519 |
In NetWorx version 7.0.3 the taskbar was reimplemented in a different way to support Windows 11. Since Microsoft removed taskbar customisation in Windows 11, we had to find a new way to embed the graph within the taskbar.
Previously we were using Microsoft's IDeskBand interface, but with the arrival of Windows 11 that's no longer possible. So we have reimplemented the taskbar graph as a separate window embedded in the taskbar directly.
We will test it with a larger number of tray icons early next week and see if we can fix the flicker.
Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 - Fixed 24 October 2022, 15:27 |
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Re: Taskbar speed graph is flickering and covered by other toolbars on Windows 10 - Fixed 25 October 2022, 12:19 |
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