icons on task bar and nvidia driver

[H. S.]

On a Dell laptop running Windows XP Pro, when a user boots into WinXP,
s/he experineces a blanking of the LCD monitor for nearly half a second
or so. That blink, I suspect, is being caused by the nVidia driver but I
am not sure. Also, sometimes, the icons in the task bar (the ones right
beside the Start button) get random image icons but once I hide unhide
that taskbar the icons reappear with correct images. Whats going on
here? Where do I start to fix this blinking and wrong images for icons
problem?

Thanks,
->HS

PS: Apologies for the repeated post in hep_and_support

[Malke]

H. S. wrote:

> On a Dell laptop running Windows XP Pro, when a user boots into WinXP,
> s/he experineces a blanking of the LCD monitor for nearly half a
> second or so. That blink, I suspect, is being caused by the nVidia
> driver but I am not sure. Also, sometimes, the icons in the task bar
> (the ones right beside the Start button) get random image icons but
> once I hide unhide that taskbar the icons reappear with correct
> images. Whats going on here? Where do I start to fix this blinking and
> wrong images for icons problem?
>
> Thanks,
> ->HS
>
> PS: Apologies for the repeated post in hep_and_support

Use msconfig and uncheck the Nvidia desktop applet and the other Nvidia
helper applications and see if that helps.

Malke
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