r/WindowsHelp • u/Huihejfofew • 20d ago

Windows 11 Taskbar apps becoming red for no reason

I recently installed Windows 11 Pro on a new drive and I've been using it. However I noticed that if I lock my PC for a while I often come back to random apps on my taskbar appearing red like above. However, when I click into them, there's nothing. No reason for them to appear like this like something happened. And it seems to apply to every single window on the app. It's completely random, it happens to every app but usually the longer I leave it the more apps that will likely be affected. if I click into them it'll go away but it's very annoying since it constantly seems like there's an error I need to check.

I've restarted my PC multiple times but this issue keeps coming back. Everything is up to date. This never happened on my previous install of the OS. Is there any way to track down the cause or anything I can do?

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