Solved Windows 8.1 refreshing desktop/moving icons?

snowpin

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So I upgraded to windows 8.1 a few weeks ago from 7 and I'm loving the performance boosts I get while playing games, the one thing that bugs me and it happens randomly, sometimes once a day, sometimes never happens at all for a day or two, sometimes it happens every couple hours.

What happens is that my taskbar will completely empty and then reload everything and my desktop will do the same, desktop background goes blank icons dissapear and then suddenly wallpaper comes back and all my icons keep shifting all over the place between my two monitors.

I've also noticed if I have my taskbar set to my main monitor (left) when it refreshes like that it forces the taskbar to move to my secondary monitor (right).

Anyone know what could be causing this issue? I do use Start8, but so far searching bugs on that nothing seems to show anything similar to what I'm getting and since it's happening to my desktop and not just the taskbar I've figured it has to be something with windows.

My PC specs are as follows:

i7 4770k
Gigabyte R9 280x
16GB G-Skill DDR3 1600

Also, does anyone know how to remove this from popping up in the bottom right corners of my desktop?

http://puu.sh/98Q5A/c662bcdc70.jpg

Also, how do I disable the being able to drag the top of my desktop down and resizes my desktop, so many times moving my icons around after they get rearranged and I accidentally change my desktop size >,<
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1 Update 1 Pro 64bit
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Pavillion H8-1202
    CPU
    I7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz
    Motherboard
    PEGATRON
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NIVDIA GeForce GT 520
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC656GR CODEC
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster S22B350
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1080 32 bit color
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500GB
    Keyboard
    Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013
    Mouse
    Logitech M510
So, another update, it looks like maybe explorer.exe is constantly closing itself and restarting itself? anyone know how to fix this?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
Found out it was because of Autocad 2014, they had a service pack fix on the website for this. remember this thread if anyone else pops up with the same issue :3
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
I just got the same issue but have no idea why it happened. Just all of a sudden. The desktop refreshes itself every few seconds. Maddening, yes. I went back into Auslogics tweaks and found one culprit and thought I'd fixed it but all that fixed was that the icons and task bar disappeared altogether and I had to use Task Manager to get anywhere at all after that. I went back in as having it refresh seemed easier than to have to go through all that. I wanted to avoid having to refresh the entire PC and reinstall 8.1, do the Trusted Installer bit and try to get it to take my $39.99 PRO key but all seems useless and sensless now that Win 9 and 10? are coming out hey? I would like to have it working without all this jumble. Anyone? Thanks
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win 8.1 pro 64 bit did get W10 but did clean install win 8
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    iPad mini, PC (main) HP f394, ACER A500 - bricked, Samsung 4 SGH T959V - want to unlock it
    Motherboard
    amd just replaced so fan is on HIGH now starting to wobble ouch
    Hard Drives
    Didn't want to go into detail about all the old stuff I have. If someone wanted to know to assist the issues, I'll provide a system info page.
    Other Info
    wow, will get to all this later, k
Found out it was because of Autocad 2014, they had a service pack fix on the website for this. remember this thread if anyone else pops up with the same issue :3

Hi mate, im having the same issue and I also downloaded autocad 2014 recently. I do not want to uninstall it as I need it for work. which service pack did your download to fix this issue?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
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