It's a CRT, but I'm fairly confident that the video subsystem is okay. The wallpaper stays stable I think and the shortcut symbols blink. It's so quick I'm not sure, but I think the shortcut artwork goes transparent, like shutting down etc. But it's less than a second.
My son complained that I left masses of stuff lying in the background (on his computer) until he ran adaware...and the only site I used was pprune.
While with Earthlink on a dial up, I got almost nothing...ever. Now with SBC / Yahoo I get weighed down with stuff until I'm slower than dial up. Run Adaware, and I'm back to normal.
In the days of DOS I was a total geek, but now I just want the darn thing to work without hours of fiddling. I guess that I'll have to invest some time into just what SBC provides in the way of protection. I'll look at the sites mentioned as well thanks.
The HP computer was good value, a refubished deal. The disc however, is cluttered with stuff HP ‘give' you. I have no Windows disc per se. The backup that they tell you to make would just be more of the same ol sameo I guess. I would so like a version of Windows that was striped to the core. It always seemed to me that an operating system that you add wanted things to, would be so simple. I'm not quite brave enough yet to go to the alternative systems however. R