Windows 10 Windows 10 Taskbar Icon pops up Invisible and disappears

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MerrillMerrill

Hello community,

I've been trying to diagnose a computer for a while now and here are a list of what I know about the problem:


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-Taskbar square pops up flashing orange in the farthest right spot (where any new application you open should/would appear)


-It is the only app that doesn't have an icon


-It disappears after half a second making it hard to right click


-when it appears it is rather random with no real rhythm


-It forces any game I am playing to lower


-Note worthy: mouse has been showing a loading circle every 1-3 seconds regardless of the processes I shut down

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At first, I thought this was simply an application error with windows conflicting with it. Causing it to not open, but repeat the process over and over.


This is a desktop with no bio-metrics.


Here are a list of things I have already done to attempt to solve the situation:

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- Clean reboot


-Temporarily disabled windows firewall before the next step


-Ran your standard scans, disk defrags, registry repairs, driver updates for windows/GPU etc.


-Removing startup applications entirely with the exception of the antivirus and realtek audio


-Stopped onedrive syncing process (in fact I don't use it and removed it entirely from the comp)


-Repaired MS Office


-Changed Steam and other programs I had been running to run comparability mode


-Went through task manager and removed Spooler subsystem app and anything else that seemed unusual


-Removed Nvidia streamer service


-Verified mouse sonar wasn't enabled


-Verified I don't have asus smart gesture


-Msconfig normal startup > applied


-Temporarily changed my mouse pointer to not show background loading circle just be the regular mouse pointer icon


-Ran Command Prompt as Admin > dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth > FOUND an error proceeded with >

dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth


-Rebooted and still had difficulties


-ReRan Command Prompt as Admin > dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth > NO ERRORS


-Verified the integrity of my game files on steam

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From here I was just unsure of what direction to go in. Task manger didn't show any unusual programs running, I tried to clear up common problems, and deep clean the basics/update.


Any and all suggestions are welcome and much appreciated!


Thank you in advance!

V/R

MerrillMerrill


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