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Desktop icons blink when the cursor is on the top of the screen if the corners are disabled.

Good catch and thanks for reporting. I can reproduce the bug. Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 8?

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I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

Windows 8 32-bit.

same bug here, except i think it happens more often when i just close a window (when the last active window is nolonger active)

Same here.

Win 8 64 bit.

I was unable to reproduce this on Win8 64-bit. Do you have to do something special with the cursor, or just leave it at the top of the screen?

misterwolfie: can you export your settings to XML file and attach it here?

mine happens when i first start up w8 mostly, and without anything besides classic shell that would affect it (i had just classic shell, and google chrome, and fully updated w8 with nothing bundled; when i first noticed the bug on this machine), the one when i close the last window seems to be gone, atleast on this computer

Maybe

a blink is not

visible

on a high-end

PC. I have netbook 1024*600 Intel Atom N455 (1,66 GHg with GPU integrated).

Now ive got an i5 quad with 3.4ghz with 16gb ddr3 ram and an ssd, i still see the blink
my old system was a 8-core 1.7ghz server with 8gb ram, a graphics card, hacked into its pcie-x4 slot

and i still see it

Btw it only happens if all active corners are disabled.

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All I have to do is bring my cursor to the top of the screen and so long as there isn't the edge of a window up there, all the icons start flashing.
This happens even if there are other windows onscreen with focus or not.

It doesn't happen if a window edge is covering the top of the desktop becuase the cursor changes to a the cursor for changing window size.

I hope the following is what you wanted:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Settings component="StartMenu" version="3.6.5">
<DefaultMenuStyle value="Classic"/>
<Computer value="Hide"/>
<Documents value="Hide"/>
<ControlPanel value="Menu"/>
<LogOff value="0"/>
<RecentPrograms value="0"/>
<SearchBox value="Normal"/>
<Skin1 value="Classic Skin"/>
<SkinVariation1 value=""/>
<SkinOptions1 value="DA60029A|E55CEDD2|BD80CDB3|C26EAF5C|86F3669C|5225DC46|5D3248DD|E87963C2|80316ABE|"/>
<DisableHotCorner value="DisableAll"/>
<StartButtonType value="MetroButton"/>
</Settings>

I saw that stardock somehow solved this problem.

Maybe they did, but I can't do that until I can reproduce the problem. And it works fine for me on multiple machines.

Now more thoroughly tested ClassicShell 3.6.8 - is only the icons are flashing between the first installation and the logoff system or reboot. Next do not blink - and thank you for that.

To me Desktop Icons are flashing also after 3.6.8 update and also after rebooting, but I've found a solution... At least it works for me...

Right Click on Computer --> Properties --> Advanced System Settings --> Advanced (Tab) --> Settings button (under Performance)

In "Visual Effects" Tab go for custom and untick "Animate controls and elements inside windows"
After applying, wherever I place the cursor icons do not flash anymore...

Hope this help also in tracking down the problem...

Bye.

I can confirm the issue is not fixed in latest version. Icons still flash if I put the cursor to the top of the screen (only when all active corners are disabled)

Also Logharn's fix worked for me, although now animations are disabled as a result.

Not yet possible to select an area of the screen from the top pixels.

What area is that? What are your "hot corner" settings?

Win 8.1, disabled all corners, cursor does not expand the selection of the top pixels.