I do have a strange screen now. I completely shut down the "beast" when I went to bed. It did have the picture of star fish on ocean bottom. Next morning entirely new screen. The best way I can describe it is: If one takes many shades of blue and sort of fan them out, so that one can see all the shades, that's what my screen looks like now. -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/