I have a Envy m6-1225dx that once you log in it starts to flash between a blue screen and the desktop. The only thing you see on the desktop is the start button and task bar. No icons show. This started after upgrading from windows 8 to 8.1. I can launch the task manager and use the run command but that is it. There are no restore points as I just upgraded to 8.1.
I have tried the following steps:
Boot into safe mode and disable drivers
Uninstall drivers and delete files
Download latest drivers from hp which are the same ones that came with the laptop and install them
Downloaded latest drivers from Intel and tried those.
Disabled all non ms services and startup programs
I was able to do all the updates that windows found
created new user account same problem.
Updated Bios to latest version.