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My question is the same as this one but for Windows 10 instead of Windows 7.

Is there a way to stop taskbar icons from flashing orange to get my attention? I find it very distracting. I have tried changing the registry values mentioned in the linked question to no success.

Kyle
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Did some research on the matter, and there are two things I found. You must complete both, and then restart, to eliminate flashing icons.

  1. Right-click on an empty area of the taskbar and select "Taskbar settings." Scroll down to the "Show badges on taskbar buttons" setting and disable it.

  2. Open Regedit.

    • Set Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ForegroundFlashCount to 0
    • Set Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ForegroundLockTimeout to 0

  3. Then restart Windows to make sure the registry changes take effect

Hope this helps and you will find a solution for your problem with this :)

Source 1: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-do-i-stop-icons-from-appearing-and-flashing-in/fd405a8b-750a-4c8f-a37c-165db509988b leading to

Source 2: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-flashing-taskbar-buttons-windows

NotTheDr01ds
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joegoku
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just tried teh registry hack, settings literally are not working and I literally despise the flashing icons as it breaks the "hide taskbar" option as it keeps flashing and refusing to vanish so I can type replies in a current chat window until I look at the other chat window in fact it seems to be a recent PROBLEM for ALL chat based apps, to flash the taskbar without giving an option to "just never flash the taskbar" in each program, and windows is so shit that it doesn't respect it's own settings app when you tell it NOT to do something, and I am pretty sure it even ignores "focus assist" suffice to say, taskbar flashing was ALWAYS an UNWANTED feature by EVERYONE yet microsoft just doesn't care what actually makes users like them, they haven't all the way back to win95/dos days, they literally lost an anti-trust lawsuit over their literally terrible and worthless ie browser when the first GUI OS'es were being devolved, and they never learned their lesson to LISTEN ONLY TO USERS NOT MARKETING

Christopher Hauck
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Type Settings on your search bar. Click on systems. Select notifications and actions. Disable all the notifications on the screen.

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