Windows 10: Win 10 Pro: post-January 13 malfunctions related to display refreshes

This is a bug report, not a request for help.


I run Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19041. Windows update history lists updates installed on my machine Jan 13 and Jan 22, and it tells me that a new update is waiting 20H2. I will install that shortly.


Both Chrome and Opera browsers give identical symptoms. Often but not always, when I click on a link, or open a new tab, or try to page up/down within an already displayed page, what is displayed does not change or in some cases a totally grey field fills the browser tab.


Perhaps Microsoft knows what's going on, but I could not find any evidence of that in a few minutes searching. Yes, I realize that there are other possible explanations for the behavior, but having demonstrated the same behavior in two different browsers - both kept up to date automatically - I think that it's either Windows 10 Pro or my hardware. Although I find Windows 10 Pro pretty reliable, I'll put more faith in my hardware at this point than I will in recently updated Windows 10 Pro. Windows has seen more updates than usual during the past 4 months; it seems to be going through some growing pains.


This behavior is new. It began sometime between Jan 13 and Jan 22, wish I could pin it down better but you know how it goes.


I have one workaround that is irksome but usually works: I switch to a different Windows desktop then back, and this usually forces display of the expected content in the browser tab.

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There were no problems with sleep mode under Win 7; there were 2 Windows updates on 12 January: Windows Defender Antivirus KB2267602 & Microsoft.YourPhone

The following steps have offered no improvement (Win 10 v 1909 18363.592):

i) Advanced Power Settings: PCI Express - change from 'Moderate Power Savings' to 'Off''
ii) CMD (admin): powercfg -h off
iii) Uninstalled Phone App: PowerShell (admin) Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.YourPhone* -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
iv) Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool run - No errors detected
v) Windows drivers appear up to date

Any suggestions for a remedy would be much appreciated.

 

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