MS-DOS Shell Colors May Blink on CGA Display (75130)
The information in this article applies to:
• Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 5.0
• Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 5.0a
• Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.0
This article was previously published under Q75130
SYMPTOMS
If you run MS-DOS Shell on a system using a CGA monitor, some colors may
blink.
RESOLUTION
Possible solutions to this situation are to re-expand the video files,
remove the "bright" color selections if they are unsupported, and to
refresh the screen within Shell. These options are described below:
• Expand the CGA files for MS-DOS Shell to the MS-DOS directory. In some
cases, Setup detects a different graphics card and expands the wrong
graphics support with MS-DOS Shell. Check to see what kind of monitor is
present, then expand the appropriate files. The proper files for each
type of monitor are listed in the MS-DOS 5.0 "Microsoft MS-DOS Getting
Started" manual.
• Some CGA cards don't support the bright colors. Any color scheme
listed in the DOSSHELL.INI file that has a bright prefix blinks if
bright colors are not supported by the CGA card. To prevent these colors
from blinking, use a color scheme that does not include bright colors,
or edit the color schemes in the DOSSHELL.INI file to remove the
bright prefix on the colors.
• If you have a screen saver loaded and task swapping is enabled, when you
swap applications, the colors may blink. Press SHIFT+F5 to refresh the
screen and eliminate the blinking.
For more information on setting colors within Shell, query on the following
words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Modification Type: |
Major |
Last Reviewed: |
10/14/2003 |
Keywords: |
KB75130 |
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