Flashing border around steam client, difficult to select options and random crashes.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

this has been happening for a couple of days. Scans from adwcleaner, superantispyware, malwarebytes premium and baidu antivirus 2015 found no malware or viruses that could attribute to this. Also at the same time when using Nvidia inspector and changing profile options most of the time it brings up the main windoW behind the options window. This is incredibly frustrating and I have no idea what is the cause of this as it is obviously not just affecting steam. (Also my firefox tabs flicker from the page to connecting and some programs flicker from normal to stopped responding repeatedly)

Please assist.

My Specs:

Windows 7 Professional SP1 (x64)
ASUS z97-K Motherboard
Intel i7-4790k@ 4.0-4.4Ghz
Noctua NH-L12 Air Cooler
32Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Geforce GTX970 gaming edition with Air cooler, 4Gb GDDR5 RAM
353.06 Nvidia Display drivers (later drivers lower performance for some reason)
over 10Tb storage
Logitech F-710 Wireless controller
Logitech G710+ Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G502 Proteus Core customizeable Gaming mouse with 8 buttons
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Flightstick
ASUS VG278 27" 3D Monitor 120Hz with Nvidia 3D vision 2 (3D Disabled for troubleshooting)
3D Vision 2 shutter glasses kit
700w PSU

even while typing this thread I get this border flashing repeatedly around Steam Client.

[Lord Ptolemy]

Try this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

This may be a driver issue?

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

This issue seems to be a Windows glitch and is plaguing windows 7 pro users around the world and no so-called solution works on my end. I have sent a support ticket to Microsoft, but I expect the answer to be to format my HDD and do a clean re-install of Windows which is the mother of all headaches! :'(

[Lord Ptolemy]

Originally posted by Lone Wolfe:

This issue seems to be a Windows glitch and is plaguing windows 7 pro users around the world and no so-called solution works on my end. I have sent a support ticket to Microsoft, but I expect the answer to be to format my HDD and do a clean re-install of Windows which is the mother of all headaches! :'(

Can you link where you found that information? I personally use W7:Ultimate 64-bit.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=windows+flickering&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=M1qKVcSQH8zM8gXN05nADA

it gets worse now as the top of my browsers disapears completely and reappears for split seconds.