Desktop flickers, has no icons, only shows Windows icon.

Knightmare25

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This happens in safe mode too. This happened after I updated Windows. Task Manager doesn't flicker. Tried disabling Problem Report and Windows Error in Start Up. Still doing it.
 
It's weird. When the desktop flickers, for about a second my icons appear, then disappear, then it just goes back to flickering without any icons. Like I said, this just stared happening after I updated Windows. I can take a video and show you guys.
 


A flash drive with Windows 10 recovery media on it. You'll need a 4GB flash drive for it, and I guess a different PC.

here's a how-to: https://www.howtogeek.com/131907/how-to-create-and-use-a-recovery-drive-or-system-repair-disc-in-windows-8/
 


Well, hopefully a few things. If you repair, it'll redownload and reinstall anything that got corrupted or was missing from that update. If you reset your PC, you can choose to keep all of your files (and settings I think?) and reinstall windows from scratch, again keeping those files.

And the more important reason, if that doesn't work, then the issue is either something fairly obvious I'm missing, or it's a hardware issue. I'll check your video when I get home from work, to make sure, but hopefully it's not some hardware problem.
 


for the record, you should be backing everything important up to make sure you aren't blindsided by this kind of thing.

That being said, there's an option for 'keep all of my files' or something to that effect. so if you see that, you should be fine. again, back your shit up though
 
So I was able to back up my files on a USB by going to task manager, run new task, explorer.exe, and dragging the files to the USB. Going to format my PC now. Hopefully that fixes it. If not, it's a hardware issue.