Article ID: 75130
Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
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:
dosshell and color
Additional query words: 5.00 5.00a 6.00 3rdparty dosshell monitor vga
Keywords: KB75130
