gruch_s

Hi Neil, Following your suggestion, I resize the task bar several times, and changed resolution from 100% (1920 x 1080) to 800 x 600, then back again, turned "News and interests" on then off again, but still no issues. Yes, I have Fences (v.3.09) installed and running, plus Cursor FX, and Multiplicity. I do have Fences View setting at 20% Opacity, but do not think that is a factor. If I set one of the Fences back to 100% Opacity, everything is still fine. There must be something else

With the latest updates to 21H1, it appears that the "News and interests" issue has been fixed. I can now disable "News and interests" and it causes no issues with the Action Center or Notification area, even on reboots. I now have 21H1 on 6 very different PCs and laptops - all with no issues. The Display adapters are: NVIDIA Quadro P2200, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7600M, Intel Iris Xe, Intel HD Graphics 530, Intel HD Graphics 3000.

I have installed the 21H1 update on several PCs with no issues, except for the PC that has Stardock Fences, CursorFX, and Multiplicity. On that PC there are issues with these items being distorted or missing: Action Center missing, Notification area gets ghost images of taskbar items when the upward carot is pressed - these ghost images disappear when the mouse hovers over them but come back each time the upwards carot is accessed. Also, the Start menu disappears on occasion. &nb