Hello:

Perhaps someone can help me with this annoyance:

I am running Vista with SP1 on an HP laptop. Whenever the system starts,
after windows loads, a blank window opens for a fraction of a second and
then closes. This happens so fast that I can't read the title bar of the
window before it closes again.

I have run Spybot S&D and have done a virus scan with Norton 360, both of
which show no problems. This is not a problem unique to SP1, since it also
happened before I installed SP1.

Have you any ideas as to what steps I might take?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Mike

Hi,

I'd suspect a splash screen for some software in your startup axis. Could
actually be the Norton software. The only real way to isolate it would be to
use msconfig in selective startup mode and begin disabling software that
loads at startup, rebooting inbetween.

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Best of Luck,

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My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Mike" wrote in message
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Hello:

Perhaps someone can help me with this annoyance:

I am running Vista with SP1 on an HP laptop. Whenever the system starts,
after windows loads, a blank window opens for a fraction of a second and
then closes. This happens so fast that I can't read the title bar of the
window before it closes again.

I have run Spybot S&D and have done a virus scan with Norton 360, both of
which show no problems. This is not a problem unique to SP1, since it also
happened before I installed SP1.

Have you any ideas as to what steps I might take?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Mike

Ignore it. It's Windows Defender starting.
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"Mike" wrote in message
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Hello:

Perhaps someone can help me with this annoyance:

I am running Vista with SP1 on an HP laptop. Whenever the system starts,
after windows loads, a blank window opens for a fraction of a second and
then closes. This happens so fast that I can't read the title bar of the
window before it closes again.

I have run Spybot S&D and have done a virus scan with Norton 360, both of
which show no problems. This is not a problem unique to SP1, since it also
happened before I installed SP1.

Have you any ideas as to what steps I might take?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Mike