Windows 10: what is this white circle on my top left corner windows screen? tried turning off GEforce...

it appears on the top left corner of the screen

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white spot on lumia 550, top left

I get a white spot that comes and goes in top left corner of the screen. What is it ?

 

Windows 11 white circle in the lower-right corner of the screen, tangent to the taskbar and the screen's far-right edge.

I am running Windows 11 Professional, version 10.0.22000 Build 22000 on a Dell XPS 17 model 9710 (touchscreen).



I opened the laptop today, resuming an existing Windows logon, to see a WHITE CIRCLE in the lower-right corner of the screen just above the Taskbar corner icons. There was no response from it via left or right clicks or screen touches. The circle remained on top of any application occupying that same region of the screen, so it was always present, including being present in the same spot even when I went to a remote-desktop session that I had running (the remote desktop's taskbar was smaller than my laptop's taskbar).

Concerned about a possible virus, I disabled the WiFi and then set about to find the process that maintained the white circle there.

One by one I stopped all running services that I could stop (via services.msc) and killed all running processes that I could (via taskmgr.exe) and stopped all running scheduled tasks (via taskschd.msc) and still the white circle remained.

I wanted to post the image here to see if anyone else has seen this. That's when it got interesting. When I ran the snipping tool (snippingtool.exe) and then clicked the "New" snip, the circle disappeared from the screen. So I hit the Escape key to exit the in-process snip and then the circle reappeared. I then tried SHIFT and PRT SC to capture the full screen but the screen capture lacked the white circle. So, I used my phone to snap a picture and have attached it here. The photo here shows faint white lines at the top and left tangents of the circle, but I didn't notice that with my naked eye, it just looked like a circle.

I eventually logged off and it was not present on the logon screen, and after a reboot, it was no longer present. I ran a deep virus scan & a boot-time high-sensitivity scan and neither reported anything.

 

Annoying audio popup in top left corner of screen for Audible

The Bar is a Media Transport within Windows,
all kinds of apps use it...
(some well, some not so well!!!) *Wink