Why do Start button flash intermittently on windows vista

The Start button in the taskbar flashes intermittently while any program is running. The tsk bar is set to auto-hide. I saw many people with the same issue. Yet, it has no solve the problem.

Hi Bruce,.

1. did you of recent changes on the system?

Method 1:

Step 1:

Check if the problem persists in safe mode.

Start your computer in safe mode .

Step 2:

If you are not faced with the question in safe mode, then you can try to perform a clean boot and see if it helps.

A clean boot to check if startup item or services to third-party application is causing this issue.

You can read the following article to put the computer in a clean boot:

How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

After the troubleshooting steps, please refer to clean the boot link to put the computer to normal startup mode.

Method 2:

If you are always faced with the question, then you can check if the problem occurs in the new user account.

Create a user account

If the problem does not occur then check out the following link to repair the corrupted user profile:

Difficulty of a corrupted user profile

Hope this information is useful.

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