It is strange to me listening to these horror stories about Dell. I got a Dell Dimension 4100 Desktop PC during Febuary of 2001, about two years ago. I took that thing apart and put it back together. I installed, used, uninstalled, and caused dozens of error messages to pop-up on my screen a day. It has held up better than any other computer I have ever had or used. I downloaded and installed over 200 programs. I still have 30 geg's left. It runs extremely fast. I have never had to wait for it to do anything. I have never used disc defrag or any other method of speeding up the computer. My brother got the same exact computer at the same time. He hasn't had any problems with it either.

Now, I will admit that I have had my share of problems. They were all caused by installing, uninstalling, and deleting things. Here is a problem I have now.

My computer crashed recently. I have it up and running right now. The "Windows ME...Millennium Edition" screen (a white screen) used to show during startup. Now, it doesn't show up. I just see a DOS-looking screen that says "Starting Windows". I don't know how to change that back to the way it was. I found a bitmap in the Windows folder that looked like the picture but I don't know how to get it to appear while the computer is starting up.

Someone please help me.