Thanks Bob, I tried both of your suggestions and no effect. I even downloaded an updated driver from the internet. The C:\> is a part of the "It's now safe to turn off your computer." screen. I tried to do a search for the text but it was not found by the find files advanced with text as given. I thought the text would be in a text file somewhere in windows--must be in machine language. Ken Bob Wright wrote: > At 09:48 PM 4/28/98 -0400, Kenneth V. Vickery wrote: > >Here is a strange one for you: > > > >After turning off my Pentium 233MMX with the Win95 blue screen of "wait > >while..." still showing (after a couple of minutes I just got tired of > >waiting for it to give me the "okay to turn off..."), I rebooted and > >Nortons ran its check and everything worked well. However, when I shut > >down a second time I got the usual "wait while..." and then it gave me > >the "okay to turn off..." amber screen BUT ALSO WRITTEN ON THE SCREEN IN > >LARGE THIN LETTERS WAS: C:\> It appears as part of the screen but the > >letters are almost a phantom but very enlarged on the right upper > >quadrant of the screen. (The dot of each colon shows up as four pixels > >in a "square" spaced about 3/16" apart.) It seems to cause no problem. > >Any idea on how to get rid of the "ghost"? > > Although I have never seen the problem you are reporting, my best > guess would be that you have some minor corruption of your video > driver. I would reinstall the video driver and see if the problem does > not disappear. The driver seems to be setting your video card into > a poorly recognized state when it releases it for Dos mode. > > This is issue with a long wait for shut down in Win95 is oft times caused > by Windows95 attempting to clean out the "temp" directory at shut down > time. Win95 will only attempt to delete temp files opened in each session > and those not removed in that session will stay in your "temp" directory. > You should check your C:\Windows\temp directory and delete any > files found in that directory. Any file found in this directory can be > safely deleted. > > BOB WRIGHT - [log in to unmask] - http://nospin.com > Owner PCBUILD - PCSOFT - VPLANETS - PCBLDFAQ