2 newbie (to hp gaming computers) questions

[twinboyz]

Hi Community,

Two questions from a family that is 'new-to-hp-gaming'  (we are on day two of our awesome omen purchases!):

1)  the task bar's HIDDEN ICONS - we can see all hidden icons, when we click on the caret, when NOT in a game.  when IN a game, many of the icons are missing.  any ideas?

2)  we are getting an update notification for gforce experience.  with our previous gaming laptops (different manufactuer) we had issues updating gforce (and by , 'issues' i mean the update messed EVERYTHING up to the point where we had to do a restore).  so, we are reluctant to accept this update.  should we be?

thanks for any assistance!!

[Photoray002]

Hello @twinboyz 

1. Not sure I quite understand, what game does this happen with and how is it being accessed?

When I play a game, it goes full screen and I cannot access the taskbar anyway, nor is it necessary. Is there something specific you need to access from there during gaming or are you merely curious?

I personally don't like having a bunch of programs/services running in the background down there as most are not necessary for the pc to operate, they just eat up resources unnecessarily. So I will go into MSCONFIG and turn them off at Startup.

Just my opinion.

2. I dont recommend using Gforce Experience. It will cause issues like you have already experienced. I would simply uninstall it, if it were my machine. I rather look up updates manually anyway. I just use the Nvidia Control Panel if I need to adjust a video card setting.

Hope that helps a little.