Disable your timed settings, such as screen saver or power saving. Do it
one at a time until you identify exactly which setting is creating this
effect.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Alec" wrote in message
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When I leave my pc on for a long time I find that when I return to it all
the text on the start menu etc and also the text on any applications that
I have left running resembles bar code stripes and iscompletely
unreadable. Any wording left that is recognisable, eg on the startup menu
etc immediately changes to the above mentioned as I run the mouse pointer
over it. This is an old cyrix 168Meg processor pc running windows 98se
with all relevant updates from the microsoft site. I would appreciate any
advice or helpful suggestions

Thanks
Alec