Hi Thomas, Additionally ...
> But first things, first ... > > Please, make a mental picture of the check boxes at your place at 'control > panel > > performance information and tools > adjust visual effects'. > > I'll bet, all check boxes for "eye candy" has been checked at your place; > NONE of > them are checked at my place ... > (I am an old fashioned guy, who wants his 8 cores to do useful things) Additionally I "enabled" 'Windows Classic' ... (which disables transparency, does it not?) i.s.o. 'Windows 7' (the default). (control panel > personalization) (in an attempt to specify how your environment might be different from mine) Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple