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.
>
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