I thought it was a dead pixel; but someone said those are black. What is a tiny red dot? It is kind of making me nuts.

It's a "stuck pixel". Allegedly fixable, but I'm not convinced. Please report here if the "fix" on the link below works for you, I'd be extremely interested! Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuck_pixel

I tried both methods..all be it...I did not run the software program for the several hours as it suggests...neither worked...

Yep - It's a stuck pixel. I had one on an older IBM laptop. It showed red and was only noticable against a dark background, esp black. Since most hardware manufacturers have guidlines for number of stuck and dead pixels per unit before it falls under warranty replacement, I was SOL. Sorry

I gave my mother an inexpensive flat panel display to go with a computer I recently bought her. I put up one of my photographs as a background image. It was seagull flying over a dark sea. Went up to visit her and was horrified to find an outline of the seagull and the desktop icons burned into the display!

I changed the background display to rotate between a number of different images instead of being fixed on the seagull. In about a month the seagull outline and icon images were gone.

At least some "stuck" pixels can be fixed, but it depends on the construction of the display and the nature of the failure.

I've got the same seagull image on my laptop and there is no sign of burn in whatsoever. I think the moral of the story is not to buy inexpensive displays.

Stuck pixels are a different phenomenon from screen burn-in. The former is caused by a manufacturing defect that permanently turns on one of the sub-pixels (red, green or blue). Screen burn-in is caused by phosphor deterioration in CRT and plasma screens, and something else in LCDs, the science of which is lost on my brain (liquid crystal rotation inelasticity)!

And once you've noticed it, you'll never be able to unsee it.