2016-08-11, 02:37 AM
I was running NPVR is full screen mode and I had a flickering issue after the Windows 10 Anniversary upgrade. Occasionally I would have a short freeze.
Concurrently I had an issue with Remote Desktop too with the client taskbar being hidden under the desktop's taskbar when the RDP was in fullscreen.
I was going to zip my logs and seek help here with the fullscreen flicker and freeze but I was too consumed with the RDP taskbar issue.
I resolved my RDP Taskbar issue and my NPVR Fullscreen and freeze issue disappeared too.
The issue was a running app was in "MustBeSeen" mode. It could have been any program running with that attribute that was not up to the new Windows changes.
For me it was Google Chromes Hangouts extension. It was set to "always on top" and for some reason Hangouts was constantly being active making the taskbar active. It is also the cause of some the taskbar flickering and autohide appearing not to work. I turned off "Always on Top" on Hangouts and all is well again.
Just a note, for me it was Google Hangouts. It could have been any program, even background apps without a usable gui, that has an attribute set to "AlwaysBeSeen". An old Win 7 or 8 OEM like HP or Dell driver update app or Nvidia. Any program not built for Windows 10. To figure out it was Hangouts for me I had to disable all startup and running programs and turn them on one by one until I found the culprit.
I am not sure if this is an appropriate post for this section or not but it might save some headaches because nothing is worse than trying to watch a show with a full screen flicker or freeze and nothing worse than blaming NPVR for it when it's not NPVR's fault.
I would have posted this in the Support forum but it's not a question and there is no need to zip and post logs. I don't want the log police coming after me. :eek:
FYI, I am posting my graphic for the RDP/Desktop issue because it's hard as heck to catch a screenshot of a flicker screen.
Concurrently I had an issue with Remote Desktop too with the client taskbar being hidden under the desktop's taskbar when the RDP was in fullscreen.
I was going to zip my logs and seek help here with the fullscreen flicker and freeze but I was too consumed with the RDP taskbar issue.
I resolved my RDP Taskbar issue and my NPVR Fullscreen and freeze issue disappeared too.
The issue was a running app was in "MustBeSeen" mode. It could have been any program running with that attribute that was not up to the new Windows changes.
For me it was Google Chromes Hangouts extension. It was set to "always on top" and for some reason Hangouts was constantly being active making the taskbar active. It is also the cause of some the taskbar flickering and autohide appearing not to work. I turned off "Always on Top" on Hangouts and all is well again.
Just a note, for me it was Google Hangouts. It could have been any program, even background apps without a usable gui, that has an attribute set to "AlwaysBeSeen". An old Win 7 or 8 OEM like HP or Dell driver update app or Nvidia. Any program not built for Windows 10. To figure out it was Hangouts for me I had to disable all startup and running programs and turn them on one by one until I found the culprit.
I am not sure if this is an appropriate post for this section or not but it might save some headaches because nothing is worse than trying to watch a show with a full screen flicker or freeze and nothing worse than blaming NPVR for it when it's not NPVR's fault.
I would have posted this in the Support forum but it's not a question and there is no need to zip and post logs. I don't want the log police coming after me. :eek:
FYI, I am posting my graphic for the RDP/Desktop issue because it's hard as heck to catch a screenshot of a flicker screen.
~Paul
If you haven't broken it at least once, you're not doing it right. :eek:
If you haven't broken it at least once, you're not doing it right. :eek:
