Sometimes, when I am finished with an application and close it. or when I store word or excel data onto one of my hard drives, my monitor goes completely blank for a few seconds then, when it comes back on it has to restore all of the icons on the desktop, one at a time, and sometimes it recofigures my whole desktop arrangement. Really annoying, as i have a loaded desktop. Is this normal for XP? ? I am running windows XP, on a 2 yr old home built machine with 1 Gb of ram, Athlon cpu, two 80 Gb hard drives, partitioned into 4 drives of 40 Gb each. Anyone have any idea what is going on? ? Thanks Jim