Sneaky_42
22 discussion posts
Greetings again,
I came up with a new idea, and it is doable but i would rather have it on a GUI for adjustments, or for "not as technical" users.
here's the story.... I have a chat program for work and flashes alllllll day long even when nothing is said for a really long time, and I found a registry value to limit the number of times things flash on the taskbar. The Idea for this comes from skype, and how i get a msg, it flashes a few times then just remains yellow till I get to it, so the idea is to barrow that but with all taskbar items.
here are the steps I found:
1) Type regedit in your start menu search bar and open up the Registry Editor.
2) Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP
3) In the right pane, right click on ForegroundFlashCount
4) Click on Modify, and select Decimal.
5) Change the Value to a higher number to however many flashes you want.
NOTE: The default value is 7.
Setting a Value of 1 will give you a single flash.
Setting a Value of 0 will give you indefinite flashes.
6) Close Regedit
7) Log off and Log on or Restart the Computer to apply the changes.
so it seems doable, and would be a nice feature to have a drop down to select a number of flashes, then just hit apply, sure you may still have to reboot due to the registry, but it would be safer for end users, and give everyone a rather nice feature.
Thank you for reviewing my request.
Sneaky_42
22 discussion posts
Very nice, and as an update, I use an application called Spark, and changing the settings as i posted did not limit it from flashing non-stop
Ah yes, I used to use Spark, and I remember the infinitely flashing taskbar button well!
Sneaky_42
22 discussion posts
Ah, then you know my pain, anything that could be done to stop the flashing would be awesome, either though Displayfusion, or any other tip.