annoying flicking of the dispaly during startup and during work with my windowsXP

[roise_r]

hi, i am having this really annoying problem with my display receantly, but unfortunately i dont remember for how long exactly, so i cannot guess from where could it come, i tried everything that sounds reasonable to couse it, but no luck... My display flickers (becoumes black for 1-2 seconds) occasionally when certain actions are made while working with windows, doing all kind of stuff, like deleting files, running properities on some file with Alt+Enter, running properities of the display, and during startup after the welcome screen. i cant tell exactly when does it flicker most, couse there is no pattern, it flickers when it likes... anyone any idea why could it be. My PC is AMD 3000+ 1GBram, GeForce6150 with latest display drivers 91.47forceware. 10x in advance

[dloneranger]

Does this just happen mainly for files that are .avi,.mpg,.wmv
If you right-click on one of these types do you get the flicker?

I had a similar problem
All of the above filetypes would either cause a monitor to flicker or cause windows to turn off my second monitor
The cause was the 'Play On My TV' entry added by the nvidia drivers
I got around it by going into regedit and deleting all the shell extensions that had 'PlayOnMyTV' in them (only the obviously video ones though like avifile etc)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mpegfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WMVFile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
These were there main three I deleted it from

Hopefully that may be of use

[edit] don't delete any of the CLSID's though, some are misnamed and you'll lose the control panel for the drivers

[roise_r]

exactly... right clicking on video files of any type couses the monitor to flick, unfortunatly, i am not so familiar with the registery, i am not sure about touching there...:(, is there a way to disable this second output by unchecking some box, some option...? P.S. Isn't there a way just to disable the "Play on my TV" feature???

[kumi]

It's thanks to this nasty little bugger: c:\windows\system32\nvshell.dll, the NVIDIA Desktop Explorer. You can disable it through Autoruns (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html). You might also have to disable one or both of the NVIDIA Display Property Extensions from within ShellExView (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html).

Edit: you can also disable Play on My TV from Autoruns.

[roise_r]

10x all, i guess the problem is clear now... but what is this autoruns - is it an application i should buy...? what about this - shellexview. what will happen if i just delete the nvshell.dll

@dloneranger I deleted what you wrote and everything is fine now when i right click on video files, but the flicking still remains at start up, and when going into advanced video settings

right-click (RC) on desktop -> properities -> settings tab -> advanced!!! (when i click here i get the flicker and then the advanced settings screen is displayed, (the one with adapter, monitor, general, troubleshoot, color managment, geforce xxxx)

[syplex]

I had this same problem and searched everywhere for the fix. It seems the fix is the one mentioned by 'dloneranger' and it is because of nVidia's "PlayOnMyTV" feature.

I created some reg files to make this fix easier. I put them up over here: DontPlayOnMyTV (http://www.geocities.com/fatboyberzerk/nvidia/index.html).

Hopefully this helps someone else!

[roise_r]

thats cool, syplex. makes things a lot easier when updating video drivers... 10x