I have the same type problem with the hour-glass cursor... in this here tiny irritating 
little glitch on my computer, that I just can't peg-down to delete... It pops-up 
in my face while I'm writing...

I'm running W98se (a fresh load), 128 Ram, 500 htz...  Every five-seconds the little 
hour-glass cursor comes-on for a second, even if the system is left idle for an hour... 
 I have done registry cleanups, uninstalled all the updaters I could find..  I ran: 
Free Registry Cleaner, CCleaner, CMCleaner, Spybot, Node32, and did a regedit search 
and destroy for web-links..  and still the little hour-glass pops-up every five-seconds... 
 I tried to stop it in mouse settings...  I can't think of anything else to try..?

It's a pain in the face when I'm trying to write on a roll.. It damages my focus... 
 I suppose over-kill would be to delete the hour-glass from the system.. but I'd 
rather just stop what's causing it to repeat.. because I like it when it indicates 
the OS is working on something extensive..  but this persistence is just a bit too-much...

It's as if something is forever trying to connect to the Net, but can't get through 
my personal settings, given that I prefer to do all the updating manually, so an 
update won't be locking-up the keyboard and mouse on me, when it momentarily takes 
all the Ram resources in the middle of a deep-thought roll...

How do I kill this little glitch?.. 

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Hi DJ.

Well when the hourglass mouse icon pops up that means a process is being started/run 
so you need to know what this process is.

When you first start you computer up and its showing the desktop only do a Ctrl+Alt+Del 
to see the list of processes running. You only need two to use Windows efficiently 
that Systray and Explorer. That doesn't mean Windows Explorer either.

With 128Mb RAM you need to save as much memory as you can. As of this weekend I'm 
now running WinME so I can't give you a list of what I'm running. I bet you have 
a virus checker running all the time, yes? They are very memory hungry. Do you need 
it running all the time? You don't, if you been given a file or downloaded something 
of the web just have your virus checker check those files.

To see what is processed to run as Windows starts up just Run: msconfig and 
look in the Startup tab. You will see Systray listed and possibly Loadgm.exe, thats 
only used for MSN. If you don't use it then remove the checkmark. You should see 
ScanRegistry this is only used to backup your registry each time your computer starts 
up on a new day, so leave that one.

If you want to get a bit technical then make a note of the exe names that are running 
on startup and do a search of your hard drive for these names. When you find one 
just highlight it and press Alt+Enter to bring up the properties. It will tell you 
who made the exe and some indication of what it does. If it looks iffy the just remove 
the checkmark from msconfig, you can always put it back is something doesn't work 
right.

I would also do a full virus scan just in case something as slipped through without 
you knowing.

An excellent program that I would recommend to any Windows user is Uninstall 
Manager 4.3. Its a bad name for the exe because it doesn't unistall anything, 
it just puts unwanted files in the recycle bin. It checks the contents of your hard 
drive and the next time you check it tells you what extra files have been added. 
Showing their location and time and date, so you can tell is something has been installed 
without your knowledge. I've used this program for the last 4 years and its great. 
You can also excluded certain folders that are always being added to e.g. cookies, 
temporary internet files and recent documents. You can also do a system restore.

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|I have the same type problem[...]
| DJ
|
If you are refering to something previously posted,
no one has the slightest idea what *that* is.
Including a **link** to that page/post would rectify that.

|[...]the hour-glass cursor[...]pops-up[...]Every five-seconds
|[...]it momentarily takes all the Ram resources[...]
|
You *do* seem to have a grasp of the problem...
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Virtual+Memory
http://www.google.com/search?q=Paging-out

|I suppose over-kill would be to delete the hour-glass from the system.
|
...but you seem intent on treating the *symptoms* rather than curing the ailment.


|[...]I'm running W98se (a fresh load),
|
That's nice, but you don't say how much useless crap loads at Startup.

|128 Ram,
|
Buy more RAM
http://www.google.com/search?q=RAM+Crucial+Kingston
   **or**
run fewer apps.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1170532515

You have swept your system for infections.  RIGHT??


|500 htz
|
MegaHertz is abbreviated "MHz".

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Thanks for the advice... I tried the advice, but couldn't find anything out of order, nor added... I scanned the OS for bugs... It's clean... I used a McAfee's antique Uninstaller's "power clean", to open the cursors file, opened each hourglass file, deleted the contents, saved a blank file, rebooted, and still the problem persisted... So I did a find search for hour glass files, and deleted all the files it found, and the problem vanished, and strangely the regular hourglass cursor still works like it's supposed to... Problem's fixed.. but whatever was causing it is probably still active somewhere in this PC... Probably just a harmless little glitch that will stay in the PC till I one day again format C... In backtracking, All I can say for sure, is that it might have been caused by the HP printer CD install, or the Avast anti-virus software install..? Avast glitched-up the PC, so I had to dump it...

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