Desktop icons blinking
Posted in : Citrix, Microsoft, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Windows Server By Stina Perbo Translate with Google ⟶ 3 years ago This blog post will only cover a scenario with Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and re-directed folders where flickering icons appear. Other solutions may apply to different scenarios. SCENARIODuring the deployment of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.15 on Windows Server 2016 with published Desktops and re-directed Desktop folder, users could experience that the desktop icons kept flickering continuously. The more shortcuts, folders or files on the Desktop the more prevalent the issue was.Constantly blinking icons on the desktop looked like refreshing the desktop with F5 or Ctrl+R and would also flash when browsing network shares. My first thought was to activate Always show icons, never thumbnails in Folder Options since there seemed to be a constant query to network shares where the re-directed Desktop folder resided. File Explorer Options File Explorer Always show icons INVESTIGATIONThe moment I clicked onView in Folder Options the desktop icons ceased flashing in my session. Dwelling deeper with Procmoninvestigating what actually happens when opening View tab in Folder Options I found out that explorer.exe queries a registry key in the users HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry. If the registry entry does not exist it will be created.
ProcMon Explorer.exe query and creation of registry key SOLUTIONWith the knowledge that the registry key was missing and creating they key would stop the icons from flashing for users on Windows Server 2016 RDS, the appropriate solution was to use Group Policy Preferences (GPP) that created the registry key for users during logon (run in logged-on userss security context) and apply it to Windows 2016 RDS servers. Gorup Policy Preferences User Configuration Registry Apply to HKEY_CURRENT_USER and set Key Path Run in logged-on users security context Step 1: Create a USER GPP that will be applied to affected targets Step 2: Create a Registry Item Step 3: Add registry key
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