the right side icon bar keeps randomly popping up and not allowing any other action. does not happen all the time but many times during the day. when starts it will pop up every 5 seconds. Very annoying and impossible to do any work while this is consistently popping in and out. how do I fix this?

See if it helps:

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-the-edge-panels-charms-bar-and-switcher-in-windows-8/

Hi,

What do you mean the "right side icon bar"? Is it charm bar or pop-up help tips or something else? A snaphot would be helpful.

If you mean pop-up help tips like

then you can refer to this detailed guide to disable this

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/31098-help-tips-enable-disable-windows-8-1-a.html

Please feel free to post back if there're some misunderstanding.

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