Desktop and taskbar at top are flashing on and off

Hi
Updating stuffit and comp went crazy. I can only type between flashing. Tried rebooting. I'm stuck.Help
Kyan

I'll bet anything the problem is StuffIt. Take a look in these folders when you are booted from your clone:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Contextual Menu Items"
"/Library/Contextual Menu Items"
Look for anything from StuffIt and move it out of the folders. Try rebooting, for safety's sake if Magic Menu is enabled, remove it as well (I think you can Command drag it off of the menu bar, and remove it from your Accounts/Login Items).
Stuffit is so ill-behaved so often I've decided to ban it from my machine.
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