# Bootup

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootup/103837>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 15, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootup/103837 "2002-04-15T23:08:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![timjw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@timjw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timjw)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootup/103837/1 "2002-04-15T23:08:48Z")

</div>

During bootup, the Windows Icon disappears and the cursor blinks in the left upper corner before going to my desktop. Whats with blinking cursor? Can I get rid of it?

Thanks,  
Tim

😕

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootup/103837/2 "2002-04-15T23:42:35Z")

</div>

It’s just going through it’s last remnants of startup before it initializes your video driver to display the desktop. Ways to get rid of it: move to 2000 or XP. It’s a DOS piece still left on the 9x OS.