Yes, the Abort dialog appears for each case, after displaying the image. On Sunday, 1 May, 2022, 08:59:32 pm IST, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 15:22:21 +0000 (UTC) > From: hermit sings > Cc: "55047@debbugs.gnu.org" <55047@debbugs.gnu.org>, >     "corwin@bru.st" > > I actually didn't know about the emacs init file. But I searched for it on the web. I understand that it should be > in `.emacs.d` in 'AppData\Roaming' folder in Windows? > But there was none. So according to an answer I read on Stackoverflow, I created a file `init.el` and left it > blank. > Then started Emacs normally and via Command Prompt. It still, however, shows the Abort dialog for both. > > For the second one: yes! It starts showing the Abort dialog after displaying the `splash.svg`. So this seems to be related to librsvg, the library used to display SVG images, or some of its dependencies. What happens if you start with -Q, and then do this:   C-x C-f C:/Program Files/Emacs/emacs-28.1/share/emacs/28.1/etc/images/splash.png RET That is, ask Emacs to display the splash image in PNG format?  Please also try with splash.xpm and splash.pbm.