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Mouse keeps flicking to hour glass
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 9:51 am
Posted by Steve (17 messages posted)

My mouse pointer keeps flicking. The arrow pointer is always there but the hour glass keeps on flicking on and off real fast. Why would this happen? and how can I fix please? My pc is a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400

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re: Mouse keeps flicking to hour glass
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 10:22 am
Posted by C K (6910 messages posted)

If you don't have any programs running, I would do a serious virus/malware scan. The hourglass indicates an operation going on in the system as if you had a program or utility running or launching. Case in point, I know for fact that some programs that record what you do and take snapshots of your screen (as close as one second intervals) will do this. Who has access to your machine??


On Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 9:51 am, Steve wrote:
>My mouse pointer keeps flicking.
>The arrow pointer is always there but the hour glass keeps on flicking on and off
>real fast.
>
>Why would this happen? and how can I fix please?
>
>My pc is a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400

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