Dragged Icons do not show their ghosts -- help!

[Tom Shubert]

I just bought a brand new Dell computer and it came with
something a bit wacky. When I click on any icon and drag
it I cannot see it dragging -- there is not ghost icon
visible. When I let go of the mouse it moves where I was
pointing but I cannot see the ghost as I drag it.

I have created alternate users and the problem remains
for these new accounts as well.

What should I do? I need to fix this rather than send
the whole thing back to Dell.

Thanks in advance!
Tom

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Hit the Winkey+pause/break to open system properties (or do it from the
control panel). Go to the advanced tab and click on performance settings. On
the Visual Effects tab, make sure the option to show contents while dragging
is enabled.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Tom Shubert" > wrote in message
...
> I just bought a brand new Dell computer and it came with
> something a bit wacky. When I click on any icon and drag
> it I cannot see it dragging -- there is not ghost icon
> visible. When I let go of the mouse it moves where I was
> pointing but I cannot see the ghost as I drag it.
>
> I have created alternate users and the problem remains
> for these new accounts as well.
>
> What should I do? I need to fix this rather than send
> the whole thing back to Dell.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Tom
>

[Tom Shubert]

Thanks for the suggestion, however, I had already checked
all of the obvious things, like that. This is not a
normal issue.

Any other ideas?


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Hit the Winkey+pause/break to open system properties (or
do it from the
>control panel). Go to the advanced tab and click on
performance settings. On
>the Visual Effects tab, make sure the option to show
contents while dragging
>is enabled.
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"Tom Shubert" > wrote in message
...
>> I just bought a brand new Dell computer and it came
with
>> something a bit wacky. When I click on any icon and
drag
>> it I cannot see it dragging -- there is not ghost icon
>> visible. When I let go of the mouse it moves where I
was
>> pointing but I cannot see the ghost as I drag it.
>>
>> I have created alternate users and the problem remains
>> for these new accounts as well.
>>
>> What should I do? I need to fix this rather than send
>> the whole thing back to Dell.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Tom
>>
>
>
>.
>

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Tom,

I would suspect a display driver issue. Have you checked for an update yet?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Tom Shubert" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks for the suggestion, however, I had already checked
> all of the obvious things, like that. This is not a
> normal issue.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi,
> >
> >Hit the Winkey+pause/break to open system properties (or
> do it from the
> >control panel). Go to the advanced tab and click on
> performance settings. On
> >the Visual Effects tab, make sure the option to show
> contents while dragging
> >is enabled.
> >
> >--
> >Best of Luck,
> >
> >Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
> >http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> >Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> >www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
> >
> >"Tom Shubert" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> I just bought a brand new Dell computer and it came
> with
> >> something a bit wacky. When I click on any icon and
> drag
> >> it I cannot see it dragging -- there is not ghost icon
> >> visible. When I let go of the mouse it moves where I
> was
> >> pointing but I cannot see the ghost as I drag it.
> >>
> >> I have created alternate users and the problem remains
> >> for these new accounts as well.
> >>
> >> What should I do? I need to fix this rather than send
> >> the whole thing back to Dell.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >> Tom
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >