Windows flickering explorer - Hardware & Software

Hello, i got a new computer recently and i installed Windows 8 on it, it was working fine until the latest update, it updated, asked me to reboot and i did, it rebooted 2 times in the process of configuring the newest update and after it finally booted up the Windows Explorer started crashing each ~200 ms and restarting, i somehow managed to kill it using taskkill /im explorer.exe /f It was taking window focus on restart. Any idea what's going on or how to fix? Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3350P CPU @ 3.10GHz 64-bit OS on x64-based processor 8Gb RAM AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series DirectX 11 ASUS Motherboard with USB3.0 slots 500 Gb HDD Wireless adapter. [editline]7th August 2013[/editline] OOPS, i meant the title to be "Windows Explorer flickering" [editline]7th August 2013[/editline] Update: It's not a big deal, i'm a good command line user, i'll run a refresh tomorrow.

Sounds like a corrupted file, if the refresh doesn't work try opening command prompt and typing sfc /scannow

Refresh didn't want to start so i simply reinstalled windows. Works fine now. I didn't have much data to loose.

I know with windows most flickering issues are cause due to a video card either bad drivers or a bad video card if its worth anything do a system diagnostics test to make sure all the parts in your computer are working properly. Again this a just a thought I know I worked on a laptop that flickered randomly during the start up of windows and sometimes during usage and it turned out that the GPU was damaged from overheating.

[QUOTE=TechOFreak128;41759342]I know with windows most flickering issues are cause due to a video card either bad drivers or a bad video card if its worth anything do a system diagnostics test to make sure all the parts in your computer are working properly. Again this a just a thought I know I worked on a laptop that flickered randomly during the start up of windows and sometimes during usage and it turned out that the GPU was damaged from overheating.[/QUOTE] If you read 1st two sentences of OP you'd know it has nothing to do with GPU. Try again.

[QUOTE]Hello, i got a new computer recently and i installed Windows 8 on it, it was working fine until the latest update, it updated, asked me to reboot and i did, it rebooted 2 times in the process of configuring the newest update and after it finally booted up the Windows Explorer started crashing[/QUOTE] You said you ran updates and then things began crapping out so a driver update could have been included in that update possible a driver for your GPU. I've worked on a laptop that upon updating the video card driver through windows updates the computer would flicker like crazy then BSOD and then restart. The way I resolved the issue is by loading last known good configurations and then re-installing that driver manually because windows updates is not good with that stuff. Btw you have no periods in the first part to the OP just a bunch of commas. And the "new computer" part of your OP does kill the bad video card issue but still leaves the driver issues.