Havoc wrote: ↑June 19th, 2023, 4:59 ambut even if so, I have no idea what can be disabled and what not. (I switched to Win 10 a week ago)
Alright, here is a list of processes you have and can be disabled. The list is based on my subjective experience (I'm quite restrictive with what processes - and to a lesser extent services - that I allow to run in the background or connect to the internet, and it has served me well over the years since I only allow things that are actually needed, no bloatware, no crapware) and on a comparison with my own task list retrieved using the same method (since I also have an nVidia discrete card, Win 10, etc. but I don't experience the issues you have):
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Id ProcessName Description Company Path
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3712 FoxitPDFReaderUpdateService
3696 gameinputsvc
3896 gameinputsvc
5812 gamingservices
5820 gamingservicesnet
3856 nvcontainer
6272 nvcontainer
3548 NVIDIA Web Helper NVIDIA Web Helper Service Node.js C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NvNode\NVIDIA Web Helper.exe
3604 OfficeClickToRun
2436 SDXHelper
7424 SearchApp
8844 ShareX
9096 TaskbarX
8712 TranslucentTB
8144 UserOOBEBroker
7012 vgtray
4184 wallpaper32 G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\wallpaper32.exe
4012 wallpaperservice32_c
Here is a smaller list of processes that I personally don't trust much, have little experience with for that reason, and that "could" be disabled to see if they play a part in the issue you're experiencing. I know they're classified as trustworthy and all, but many things are and yet they still can cause various problems, so this is optional:
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Id ProcessName Description Company Path
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4020 MsMpEng
8244 NisSrv
1776 WUDFHost
The rest of the processes should be ok to be running, many of them run for me too and I don't get the flickering.
What I recommend is, first, make sure your computer is clean, since some of the things above relate to security and you wouldn't want to disable them until you're sure you have nothing to worry by doing so. Second, google the ones you don't know about and be sure you know how to toggle them back to run like before, if necessary (some of them can be controlled from Task Manager / Startup, but not all). Third, for an even greater peace of mind, try stopping whichever you decide to stop while you are not connected to the internet.
Then, the best way to do it IMHO would be to temporarily disable / stop them all at once, for one Windows startup session (simply stopping them in the existing session might not produce the expected changes), just to see if any of them are to blame for the problem you have. Normally, this can be replicated even simpler, by booting Windows in Safe Mode, but there are some differences between the approaches, and those differences might play a part in the flickering. Do your skin tests as extensive as you can, notice whether the flickering has been stopped or alleviated, then toggle them back to their original running states if they are not to blame. If they are, you can try further isolating the problem by disabling / stopping just a few, and so on.
The rest is up to you. It's entirely possible that such processes are not to blame, but some other forgotten Windows setting, so at a minimum, what this does is either eliminate or place the suspicion on them. One other thing, when you say that you "switched" to Win 10 a week ago, did you mean by doing a clean install, right? I'm saying this because clean (and pragmatic, i.e. keep only what you need) installs are the best way to ensure things work out as they are supposed to be. Updates are a nice thing to have, but I prefer clean installing new versions 9 times out of 10, and the effects are noticeable - just saying.
