blue screen death when starting X

Hi I wanted a UNIX environment in WinXP, so I downloaded Cygwin, full package. In order to run Emacs in a window of my own, I was recommended to start a program usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh. Unfortunately, this results in a blue-screen-of-death; the immediate shutdown of the system. Is this a bug

emacs menubar not working

Hi I normally use RedHat to dev. FORTRAN programs, but dowloaded cygwin; full package to develop the programs there instead. I use Emacs as editor. My problem is 1) I cannot use the menu in Emacs. I have tried to add a 'tty export' key in registry (why I dont really know, but it was recommended