Question Desktop blinking

[IBMJunkman]

New PC. I5-12600K, Gigabyte B760M DS3H, Kingston Fury 64GB, Windows 11 Pro

I hate building PCs for others. Finished above system. Worked fine in my house. Friend took it home and fired it up. Worked fine. Installed ESET. No problems.
Fired it up today and Windows did updates. After restart problems started.

No taskbar. Desktop blinking. If he manages to start Edge the window open and does not blink but the desktop in the background still blinking. The url bar will not accept typed input. Can’t start any other apps using icons on desktop.

All he can do is use the power button to shut down.

We managed to get into safe mode and rolled back to latest restore point. We disabled Windows updates. Starts up fine. He will do ESET again and see how it goes.

Any ideas?

 

[Orfosaurio]

Test the GPU and the Windows installation.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Test the GPU and the Windows installation.

GPU is integrated in the i5-12600K. How do you test a Windows installation?

 

[Orfosaurio]

GPU is integrated in the i5-12600K. How do you test a Windows installation?

Get into the Recovering Environment of Windows.

 

[mindless1]

I once had weird blinking but think it was the cursor not desktop. Turned out to be a stuck keyboard key.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Get into the Recovering Environment of Windows.

He already restore back to previous checkpoint which removed the 10/10 automatic updates. The problem went away. We have disabled automatic updates for now.

 

[Orfosaurio]

He already restore back to previous checkpoint which removed the 10/10 automatic updates. The problem went away. We have disabled automatic updates for now.

Cool!