When I resize File Explorer some applications are redrawn causing them to flicker. (I say redrawn because what happens looks exactly like when the controls on a WinForms app are redrawn from top to bottom and it takes a couple 100 milliseconds). I checked with a friend and this does not happen to him. The affected apps include:
- Task Manager
- Microsoft Autoruns
- Several of NirSoft's tools
- Device manager
- ClickMonitorDDC
- (CLion and PyCharm also flicker but aren't redrawn in the same way)
Resizing any of the above applications does not have any affect on File Explorer or any of the other applications. Chrome, Spotify, Discord, VLC, iTunes, OneNote, VS 2017, Arduino IDE, and Steam are unaffected. When I resize File Explorer as fast as possible my dGPU spikes to 10%, my iGPU spikes to 30%, and 1-3 threads of my CPU spike to 100%.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Thanks.
My system:
Dell G3 3579 (i5-8300H / GTX 1050 4GB / plenty of RAM and SSD available)
I have tried:
- Restarting display drivers.
- Closing all my AHK scripts.
- Closing ClickMonitorDDC.
- Disabling and enabling "Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling" in settings.
- Disabling and enabling "Launch folder windows in a separate process" under Folder Options.
- Unplugging my external monitor.
- Checking for Windows updates.
- Restarting my computer.
- Updating Nvidia drivers to latest version (466.11).
- Disabling Nvidia drivers from Device Manager.
- Changing the display driver to "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" in Device Manager.
- Changing the display driver to "Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630" (v 27.20.100.8935 and .9168) in Device Manager.
- Totally uninstalling Clover (never update past version 3.0, it's adware).
- Closing most background apps.