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Strange Windows notification problem (Win 7 x64)


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i think this just started yesterday, but every so often I'd see what looked to be a windows notification balloon flicker up for a split second from my system tray. And I mean a split second, it didn't stay up for the 5 seconds it's supposed to.

To get to the bottom of it, I recorded my desktop with fraps and caught it in the act. Stepping through the video I managed to see it clearly:

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I'm running the latest Avira free version. I ran a scan with MBAM and it came up clean. Also ran "winmgmt /salvagerepository" to verify that the WMI repository wasn't corrupt. What's unusual about this (to me anyway) is that it disappears so fast. I haven't seen this behaviour before.

Has anyone had this happen before?

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Yes this is happening to me too - I was thinking of fraps'ing it to catch it but you've already done the hard work there, thanks! It seems to have started happening to me since I upgraded Avira to 2012 and appears to coincide with the virus definition update process so I'm thinking that it's some artifact of that - Avira is switching itself off briefly while it loads the new update maybe? Not sure.

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