Hello Charles,
This isn't the expected behaviour of AVG Secure Browser.
We request you to uninstall your AVG Secure Browser and try accessing your other applications to check if any application(s) is also displaying similar behaviour.
If no other applications are displaying the similar behaviour, please reinstall your AVG Secure Browser and check if the issue still persists.
If the issue still persists after the reinstallation, please write back to us. We'll check and offer you further assistance.
Thanks in advance. Keep us updated.
Per your advice, I uninstalled AVG Secure Browser and tried various other applications including Chrome without the problem occuring. Then I reinstalled AVG Secure Browser and the problem still persists. I tried various different settings under the browser Settings to no avail. I would also note that Hardware Acceleration must remain "OFF" for YouTub videos to display properly under Windows 10 Home edition, but that was not the case previoulsy under Windows 7.
Video adapter is AMD Radeon HD6450 with 1 MB dedicated RAM and the latest available driver. Each time AVG Secure Browser is launched, all the desktop icons and shortcuts flicker to blank and then refresh. This does not occur when launching Chrome. Using Windows 10 Home edition. How do I get this to stop?
Thank you for the clarification, Charles.
We appreciate your time and effort in trying to fix this issue.
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Hello Charles,
This isn't the expected behaviour of AVG Secure Browser.
We request you to uninstall your AVG Secure Browser and try accessing your other applications to check if any application(s) is also displaying similar behaviour.
If no other applications are displaying the similar behaviour, please reinstall your AVG Secure Browser and check if the issue still persists.
If the issue still persists after the reinstallation, please write back to us. We'll check and offer you further assistance.
Thanks in advance. Keep us updated.
Thank you reporting back, Charles
I appreciate your time and effort in this.
This isn't the usual behavior of AVG Secure Browser.
So even after disabling the features one by one in the browser, are you still facing the flickering?
Yes, still facing the flicker/refresh. The only features enabled are: Show Bookmarks Bar; Spell Check using English(United States); and Sponsored Content. Also enabled under Privacy and Security are: Anti-Phishing, Autocomplete searches, Anti-Tracking, and Automatic use of HTTPS encription. I'm not sure this is relevant, but the Proxy Settings are all OFF. The computer receives its internet service from a slow 3MB/sec Verizon DSL line via WIFI from a NetGear wireless router. But the flicker/refresh issue does not occur when launching Chrome or Firefox, just AVG Secure Browser.