Windows 10: Programs flashing and behaving weird.

Hello all, recently programs on my computer - both games and programs like the disc cleaner, flash weirdly and act strange. I really don't know how best to describe it but basically some parts of a programs window will flash, and the icon on my taskbar will disappear and then slide back into place as if the program were just opening. It does this very rapidly, and early when playing the Division beta my cursor would not lock to my screen when aiming and instead would go off onto my other monitor. I just did a re-install of windows ten using the option to save my personal files, but it's still doing it. Any ideas as to whats happening here?


If my description is confusing (And I know it is) I can provide a link to a gif for an example, this is really annoying and in a lot of cases crashes my programs or renders them unusable.

:)

 

Problem: Nokia 820 (Windows 8.0) overheats, crashes, reboots automatically after power down

Is it still behaving? I had a 920 at launch that was acting crazy until I reflashed it. Really weird, like it had a bad flash at the factory or something...

 

Keyboard behave weird

thank you

i have tried the first method before but it didn't fix the problem

i uninstall my keyboard driver twice , and it fix the problem

thank you again

 

This person here was having the exact same issue as me; Windows 10 programs flickering and saying for split seconds rapidly. : computers

I realize now that the programs are not responding and then responding over and over again really fast, someone said it could be damage to my HDD so I'm running speccy now but.. Does anyone else have any ideas in case this doesnt work?

 

That would be appreciated if you provide one *Smile

So far I know shows Speccy only some S.M.A.R.T. attributes and temps, but that doesn't have to indicate a problem with the hard drive.
I would suggest to try a few other tests instead, 1 of them shows the exact same results and more.





Diagnostics Test

HDD TEST


Run SeaTools to check the integrity of your HDD. SeaTools for DOS and Windows - How to Use - Windows 7 Help Forums
Run following tests

• Short Drive Self Test
• Short generic
• Long generic

If the short generic fails, no need for the long generic.


Note Do not run SeaTools on an SSD as the results will be invalid.



Run chkdsk
Disk Check - Windows 7 Help Forums



Run HDTune to

• scan for errors, no quick scan but full scan
• check the health,
• benchmark.

It may take some time, but please take the time you need to perform it properly.
Let me know what the results are

• of the error scan,
• make a screenshot of the health of every hard drive and post the screenshots,
• post screenshots with the benchmark of the
  • transfer rate,
  • access time,
  • burst rate,
  • cpu usage.

 

Screen capture - cd0e808f6d09697a3ea45638fc251111 - Gyazo

Here is a gif of the disk cleaner flickering as I'm using it, it was more difficult to record the taskbar since I can't do that with gyazo so I had to take a video. The video demonstrates what the icon on my taskbar is doing during this flickering - which I now know is the program not responding very rapidly over and over again, the gif I provided above was very tame, it's usually much much worse than that and will flicker rapidly in milliseconds at a time. WARNING: The video is really loud! I didnt realize at the time that my fan was on, and for some reason in this it sounds like an industrial snow blower so, yeah just mute the video. YouTube

Short DST result: Screenshot - 7e5b92ba090ae1029285b06a39828375 - Gyazo
Short Generic result: Screenshot - 60383fa8932e1289739501754dcffde3 - Gyazo
Long Generic result: Screenshot - f98af597c5ae5c87a4f67417d2453cca - Gyazo
Chkdsk result: Screenshot - bc96c4fa28d87e9eabed6d015c66babf - Gyazo
HD Tune error scan result: Screenshot - e29d4534c8bbf329b8f0836aff8f554e - Gyazo
HD Tune benchmark: Screenshot - f8b15998b3cf1f229bf1ebdc5a92bc9f - Gyazo

As for HD Tune's health thing, I couldnt figure out what to do with it so I just took a screenshot of the window :L Screenshot - f5f5d5c3b537b6f56262e6bd4eb3803f - Gyazo


Everything seems to be okay with my HDD looking at these results but you probably know more than me, thanks for your help by the way

 

That is unfortunate with the health, is Speccy showing something of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes?

 

Hard drives
WDC WD10 EZEX-00BN5A0 SATA Disk Device
Manufacturer Western Digital
Business Unit/Brand Mobile/WD Scorpio
Heads 16
Cylinders 121,601
Tracks 31,008,255
Sectors 1,953,520,065
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ACS2
Serial Number WD-WCC3F2428076
Firmware Version Number 01.01A01
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 316 times
Power On Time 422.8 days
Speed 7200 RPM
Features S.M.A.R.T., NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
RAID Type None
S.M.A.R.T
Status Good
Temperature 44 °C
Temperature Range OK (less than 50 °C)
S.M.A.R.T attributes
Attribute name Real value Current Worst Threshold Raw Value Status
01 Read Error Rate 0 200 200 51 0000000000 Good
03 Spin-Up Time 2300 ms 174 173 21 00000008FC Good
04 Start/Stop Count 321 100 100 0 0000000141 Good
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 0 200 200 140 0000000000 Good
07 Seek Error Rate 0 100 253 0 0000000000 Good
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 422d 20h 87 87 0 00000027A4 Good
0A Spin Retry Count 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
0B Recalibration Retries 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
0C Device Power Cycle Count 316 100 100 0 000000013C Good
C0 Power-off Retract Count 73 200 200 0 0000000049 Good
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 458 200 200 0 00000001CA Good
C2 Temperature 44 °C 99 86 0 000000002C Good
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 200 200 0 0000000000 Good
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 200 200 0 0000000000 Good
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 200 200 0 0000000000 Good
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 200 200 0 0000000000 Good
C8 Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate 0 200 200 0 0000000000 Good
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 38086F66
Size 99 MB
Used Space 35.6 MB (35%)
Free Space 64 MB (65%)
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number A609E76E
Size 930 GB
Used Space 151 GB (16%)
Free Space 779 GB (84%)
Partition 2
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #2
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 36AF5DB9
Size 449 MB
Used Space 349 MB (77%)
Free Space 100 MB (23%)



This is what speccy is giving me.