Well, it's not screen burn...

ubersonic

ubersonic

ubersonic

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Oh-Kay, this is a bit of a weird one, over the past few weeks I've noticed a screen burn effect on my monitors. The issue I am experiencing is basically on my black taskbar I can see the faded icons of apps that spend a lot of time open, and I can the faded icons of system tray icons which are not running anymore. Yeah classic screen burn I know, and I thought it was and was planning to fix it when I had some free time, until today.

I needed to do some stuff on my PC while at work and so connected via Chrome Remote Desktop and BAM, the screen burn is here too. Now obviously that shocked me as it's impossible, which means the issue is software not physical.

What the hell... any ideas?


For the pedants: yes I know LED backlit LCD cannot get screen burn and it's actually persistent image, but most people still call it screen burn hence my usage of an incorrect yet generally accepted term.


*EDIT*

I can actually PrtScr the issue too, you guys are seeing this too yeah? lol.

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I would start with sfc /scannow a couple of times to see if it's windows file corruptions causing your issues, after that there is a powershell script that reinstalls "windows apps" including the start bar but you might want to grab a system restore point before running it:

run from system 32 using powershell:

Code: 
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
 
Okay guys, everything's fixed, turns out I had trolled myself hard.

A few weeks ago I changed my wallpaper, cycled through a few new ones but decided I preferred the old one so set it back. Except I didn't set it back, I set it to a full size screenshot of my desktop /facepalm. That's what the ghost icons were, system tray icons that were no longer running and an app on the right monitor which was closed lol.

Never go full retard.
 
Doh - I was about to say it looks like mine when the task bar messes up when I'm on a skype call and I use remote desktop. I get my local taskbar over the remote one.
 
ubersonic said:
Okay guys, everything's fixed, turns out I had trolled myself hard.

A few weeks ago I changed my wallpaper, cycled through a few new ones but decided I preferred the old one so set it back. Except I didn't set it back, I set it to a full size screenshot of my desktop /facepalm. That's what the ghost icons were, system tray icons that were no longer running and an app on the right monitor which was closed lol.

Never go full retard.
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I've done some things in my time but I'd struggle to top that.
 
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