When opening/re-starting Power Toys with the "Color Picker" module enabled, a white window belonging to the "Color Picker UI" flashes for split second at the mouse cursor's position

[Codrax]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.81.1

Installation method

GitHub, PowerToys auto-update, Microsoft Store, WinGet

Running as admin

Occurs both with or without administration

Area(s) with issue?

ColorPicker

Steps to reproduce

The steps to reproduce this bug are as follows:

1. Open the Power Toys settings form
2. Click the Color Picker menu in the sidebar
3. Enable the color picker module
4. Quit PowerToys from the system tray (or restart the computer)
5. Re-open PowerToys from the start menu (or started in any other way)
6. The flashing window will appear for a very short time at the location of the mouse pointer on the screen

Additional notes

I identified that the white window belongs to the Color Picker UI with a custom software developed by me, which shows the following information about the window: This identifies the Process of the active window via the following functions: GetForegroundWindow, GetWindowThreadProcessId, OpenProcess and GetModuleFileNameEx

✔️ Expected Behavior

The UI of the Color Picker not to be show unless called unless called by It's Activation Keyboard Shortcut

❌ Actual Behavior

The Color Picker UI show during the startup of the PowerToys application at Windows Startup or when re-opened after the application was closed from the system tray.

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