Windows 10 problem with "Flashing Desktop" after logon.

[phaZed]

So I had a Dell Vostro 3450 come in the shop with an annoying flashing/refreshing desktop issue after being upgraded to Windows 10, from 7:

A bunch of services such as Search, WinUpdate, Networking, Bluetooth etc were not starting as well and Windows 10 was additionally stuck trying to install hardware drivers (But processes were stuck/paused).

Safe mode worked without issue and was used to correct the problem:

FIX:
I removed the Validity Facial Recognition software and Dell Digital Persona Fingerprint reader software which run their own Userinit logon scripts/exe. Looks like Windows 10 doesn't like that too much or the permissions were simply broken during the upgrade...

 

[Markverhyden]

Recently had a new W8.1 home laptop, Asus, with the exact same symptom after running the first group of updates. This happened after I had left the site. The EU ended up fiddling around and getting into repair mode and ran that. By the time I had remoted in the next day all of the updates had run and it was behaving properly. So I had no chance to see what might have caused the problem.

 

[Bizybone]

Worked on a 8.1 laptop the other day, similar issue, though issue stopped while booted into safe mode. Saw a similar thread here where someone mentioned Norton. So I uninstalled that and issue went away.

 

[Galdorf]

Making money upgrading w7/w8 to 10 and the reverse w10 back to 7 seems lots of people still don't like it.

 

[Theo]

I have had a couple laptops so far with this issue, the constant between them is that they are reporting "Generic PnP Monitor" in the device manager with a yellow exclamation point. They were both upgraded from windows 7. I looked for new drivers, no luck, removed the device and rebooted, no luck.
Seems that the driver support just isn't there. I don't think either of these laptops even have windows 8 drivers available.

 

[phaZed]

I have had a couple laptops so far with this issue, the constant between them is that they are reporting "Generic PnP Monitor" in the device manager with a yellow exclamation point. They were both upgraded from windows 7. I looked for new drivers, no luck, removed the device and rebooted, no luck.
Seems that the driver support just isn't there. I don't think either of these laptops even have windows 8 drivers available.

Ahh, you are so close to fixing it.. It's not a driver issue. The problem (look and verify this for your systems) is that the services can't start and so the Hardware Installation service doesn;t start either and you can't install the drivers. It's not that they won't work. I saw the exact same thing with the Generic PNP monitor and all... but that was just the effect, not the cause.

 

[red12049]

A refresh fixed that on the Toshiba had in today. Ugrade from 7 to 10.

Rick

 

[CLC]

Do this, worked for me.

Run msconfig and disable the following services. Then fix your drivers, repair install your antivirus, and you are good to go.
"Problem Reports and Solution Control Panel Support"
"Windows Error Report Service"

If you can bear the blinking screen while typing you can do this while the screen is flashing and it will stop as soon as you hit apply in msconfig.

 

[Theo]

When this issue cropped up for me, the only way I could do anything was boot into safe mode, it would accept no input when the screen was blinking.
The last PC I had doing this a couple days ago, I reverted to win7, then saw these posts and thought I would try the suggestions out, and upgraded to windows 10 again, and applied all the updates, installed the chipset drivers and it worked fine, no blinking, and no generic PnP monitor like before.

 

[NYJimbo]

Just had one now, right at closing time. I declined to repair the machine because of so many other problems (I may post that long story later).

I noticed that MS released another cumulative update last night. That makes 3 of them since Win 10 released on July 29th. Not sure if the fix is somewhere in there, but a lot of people seem to have this blinking issue.