When using Windows XP (not when I use 98SE or ME), the text on the screen will FLASH when I am using the command prompt. It FLASHES about 2 - 3 times a second.

It does not flash when I first call the command prompt
What makes it flash ?
If at a 'normal' prompt I use
      A The edit Command
      B call or execute a  batch file
      C Execute a QBASIC program
 when the program returns to the prompt after program execution in A B or C –
        all text on the screen is flashing
If I execute a command such as ‘dir’ during the flashing
      All text flashes
By ‘exit’ and returning to windows then accessing the command prompt again
      All is well until
      A  B  or C  above

Can you help ?
Thanks
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Do you have anything suspicious in your Startup folder?

Has this always happened, if not what changed immediately before it started to happen?

Malware scan?

djplasticusa,

When an old dos style *.com is executing then the command window will switch back to 80x25 characters and the scroll-bars will disappear which makes the window flicker.
Same would happen when you START a batch file that is then starting an old style *.com.

Could this be the reason? :-/
The answer to my question – why the screen blinks after executing an MS DOS program  -

Windows XP does not 'like' the full screen mode when ‘doing’ MS DOS or QBASIC – Why – I don’t know

Solution - In any event – by   alt+Enter if blinking should occur – the full screen becomes a window and the blinking goes away – BINGO

DJC