Bill,

The "Blue Screen of Death" will not go away once displayed.
It also displays an error message in white text in the center of it.

Based on what you have described, you do not have anything to worry about.

Windows does blank the screen and redraw the desktop during the start up
process.  Your screen happens to be blue because of some color settings or
background for your desktop.  Mine goes white because the graphic I am using
for the desktop background is predominately white.

Jim Meagher
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From: Bill McKinney <[log in to unmask]>



> William P. McKinney
> Hi,
> >I have read about "The Blue Screen of Death" and wonder if I'm
> >working up to something serious on my P120 computer with Win98 and IE5.
> >When I boot up, it goes through the normal routine and gets to my desktop
> >wallpaper, with the lower left toolbar showing and then goes to a
complete
> >blue screen for about 8 seconds, with an arrow & hourglass and then
paints
> >down to my normal desktop display with both lower left and right
toolbars.
> >I don't seem to remember it doing this before, but I do not always watch
the
> >boot up.  Everything seems to work O.K.  Should I be concerned?
> > >                                             Thanks,  Bill
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