icons on task bar and nvidia driver

From: H. S. (g_reate_xcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:18:57 -0400

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