{"id":19161,"date":"2022-11-10T06:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=19161"},"modified":"2022-11-10T06:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:55:23","slug":"stop-taskbar-icons-from-flashing-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/stop-taskbar-icons-from-flashing-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Ways to Stop Taskbar Icons from Flashing in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the Microsoft Teams icon blinking orange to indicate you got a new message? When a background app needs your attention, the taskbar icon may start flickering 7 times. If you easily get distracted, you can stop taskbar icons from flashing or blinking in Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Change How Many Times Taskbar Icons Flash<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop<\/code>. In the right pane, double-click the DWORD ForegroundFlashCount<\/strong> to modify its value.\n

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  2. Set its value to 1 so taskbar icons will only flash once. Keep in mind that setting the ForegroundFlashCount<\/strong> value to 0 won’t disable flashing.\n

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  3. Close Registry Editor. Reboot your computer to see the changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Disable Flashing on Taskbar Apps<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Right-click the empty space in the taskbar and choose “Taskbar settings<\/strong>“.\n

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    2. When the Settings app<\/a> launches, click the “Taskbar behaviors<\/strong>” option to expand it.\n

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    3. Uncheck the “Show flashing on taskbar apps<\/strong>” option.\n

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      This will completely prevent taskbar icons from blinking orange when apps need attention of the user.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      See the Microsoft Teams icon blinking orange to indicate you got a new message? When a background app needs your attention, the taskbar icon may start flickering 7 times. If you easily get distracted, you can stop taskbar icons from flashing or blinking in Windows 11. Method 1: Change How Many Times Taskbar Icons Flash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[5049,5050,5051],"class_list":["post-19161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-disable-flashing-on-taskbar-apps","tag-taskbar-icons-flashing-windows-11","tag-taskbar-icons-flickering-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19161"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19174,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions\/19174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}