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Flashing NVMe disk icon in the taskbar
With the latest Canary update 27813, I noticed a strange prompt of a flashing (in time with the NVMe disk light on the computer case) USB icon in the expandable panel of application thumbnails on the right side of the taskbar.
It looks as if the flashing icon reflects the NVMe disk operation and not the physical connection of some USB element.
The icon flashes to the right of the Windows Defender icon.
Here is a video. Has anyone noticed a similar curiosity?
Disconnecting USB devices did not change the situation :)
The issue does not occur on version 27842. At the moment, I consider it to be solved in the indicated Canarian compilation.
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The issue does not occur on version 27842. At the moment, I consider it to be solved in the indicated Canarian compilation.
I will also add - which is particularly interesting - that the problem with fps drops in games and progressive delays in launching applications and flashing USB icon when SSD disc works (which affects my stationary PC with Ryzen 9 5950x 3.4 Ghz / Asus ROG X-570E ATX AM4 DDR4 motherboard / EVGA 3080 FTW3 card / 64 GB RAM) does not occur on my ROG STRIX laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and Nvidia 3080 Laptop card with 64 GB RAM, on which I have the same antivirus program (BitDefender) as the stationary computer.
The problem still occurs on build 27823. I have also noticed that with time, the system starts to slow down (as if it reacts slower to requests, e.g. starting a number of applications). This often takes a disproportionately long time and while it is not noticeable shortly after starting the computer, it is noticeable after, for example, an hour of work - despite the strong PC specification. If I manage to notice any circumstances indicating a potential source - I will update the entry.
On the latest version of Canary 27818 the shortcut module de facto often flashes all the time. When the USB icon appears, only it does this, however, when the active printer queue icon appears (with a print command) - the USB icon flashes alternately with the printer icon (often overlapping, which slightly complicates and makes it difficult to display the active print queue window).
As I wrote the problem is with the Asus ROS X570-E Gaming board with AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core 3.40 GHz processor and NVMe Samsung Evo 970 SSD with the latest drivers.
The described problem still occurs on build 27818
I also recorded how the taskbar icon module behaves while loading system resources/applications. The entire module stops flashing after the USB icon appears (the USB icon flashes later on its own - in time with the disk light on the case).
Additionally, when certain processes are started - e.g. printing - (this is visible in the attached video), the USB icon flashing in sync with the disk light on the PC case collides with the printer operation icon - making it impossible, for example, to enter the print tasks applet (no response of the right mouse button on the flashing printer icon).
Open Device Manager (right-click on the Start button and select "Device Manager"). Check for any driver updates under "Disk drives" for your NVMe disk and "Universal Serial Bus controllers" for USB devices. Right-click and select "Update driver" for any that may have issues. If updated drivers don’t solve the issue, you might want to roll back the NVMe driver to a previous version that was stable.
I checked the drivers, but for each of the components of the computer I get feedback that it has the best driver. The problem is with the Asus ROS X570-E Gaming board with AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core 3.40 GHz processor and NVMe Samsung Evo 970 SSD and Canary build 27813.
I have installed the Universal Serial Bus controllers in version 10.0.27813.1000 dated 03/07/2025 and the NVMe disk drivers in version 10.0.27813.1000 dated 06/21/2006, but in previous Canary builds this problem did not occur.
