Icons in menu bar disappear and show up again

All icons in my icon bar in the upper right corner disappear every other second and start to show up again one after each other.
I have no clue how to stop this annoying behavior. I did not do anything special.
Does anybody have any idea?
THX

Go to ~(Home)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and delete that file then log out and back in or restart. Your menu bar should return to default.
This may solve it, or the problem may actually be in the .plist of the application you used. Go through your preferences and see if any name without "com.apple..." rings a bell. Don't delete it just drag it to the desktop and log out and back in or restart.
Let us know.
-mj

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