Windows 10: Middle of laptop monitor has a transparent grey box, occasionally glitches out

The title explains it. The middle of my laptop monitor has a large transparent grey box that I cannot interact with. I have tried restarting, the box appears when logging in. I have also tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers for my laptop monitor and updating to the latest version of Windows, but nothing has changed. I tried getting an image of it glitching out and distorting the screen, but it happened too fast.

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Start Menu Transparency glitch

I'm using W10 1903 build and I noticed there's a glitch with the transparency effect.

As you can see in the attached gif, start menu opens in full transparency and suddendly become blurry, this does not happen with the notification panel (but on another laptop I got the same issue on the notification panel as well).

Already tried to change theme, remove transparency, set the EnableBlurBehind property in the register to 0 and sfc, but nothing works to fix it.

 

Single monitor=no transparency in Start menu on dual monitor system

Hello, I can't find any information about this one so here it goes.

My Windows 10 is a dual monitor system and I don't get this problem when both monitors are enabled but when I game I disable the secondary display and then on the primary display the Start menu will lose transparency. It makes me sad.

I have installed color profiles for both displays and set them as primary profile for each one. I have also calibrated the color of both displays.

Primary display is AOC 2460 connected with DVI-D

Secondary display is Acer G246HL Connected with HDMI

Graphics card is Nvidia Gerforce 1050 TI 4GB and it has latest drivers

Operating system is Windows 10 Pro v. 1803 (OS-build 17.134.228)

Steps to reproduce:

• On dual monitor system disable secondary monitor
• Open Start menu and transparency will be lost

Additional information:

CPU overclocked with multiplier but was at Stock settings when OS was installed

GPU overclocked with Asus GPU Tweak II

 

Cheap Photo box that will get the job done

WEll i took on this project for PP hes a hardware reviewer and wants to get the professional looking pics for the Pc parts

Materials:

• Big cardboard box

• a razor

• white material 3 yards

• cone lights

• stapler

• medical tape

• pvc pipe about 6 inches longer than your box

• white paint any cheap finger paint would work

the project I'm guessing will cost me $30 if it works out properly
I will post pictures and step by step as i do it