White screen blues

I have to remove the battery, hold down the power button, replace the battery and press the power button again to get my laptop started. Even that doesn't always work.  In fact it seems to be getting worse.  Why is this happening?  Is it related to my new (few months old) battery?
Also, although the Internet is jammed with helpful instructions on this battery trick, I haven't found a permanent solution and weirder still I have never once seen anyone mention the Ghost List Mouse Cursor. About a month ago I was trying to drag a text file and the icon looked weird,as if the white pixels of the image had been erased leaving a column of six or seven horizontal lines that were just a bit darker than the desktop. As if someone had traced the outline of a text file on onion paper and glued it to the side of my mouse cursor. Then along came mister Rainbow Wheel and I tasted my first spoonful of the zesty white screen problem.
Since then, this Ghost List looking thing returns more frequently and it is always the sign that the computer is freezing up for real and though some minor actions still pretend to work, the Ghost List invariably means game over.  It seems an odd thing for everyone to omit so I suspect that no one else has this thing.

Thank you very much, Captfred!
Now it´s ok.
I was really worried.
Thank you again,
Silvia

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