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To: Crazy Canuck who wrote (9899)	1/9/2000 6:50:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

hi cc, i'm just going to take a little piece of your post... "I also recently did a disc defrag and it took 17 hours to complete." try turning off background apps prior to running the defrag. antivirus software is a big offender here. i think your defrag will go much quicker. :) mark

To: Crazy Canuck who wrote (9899)	1/9/2000 6:56:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Respond to of 14778

Is your mouse USB? I notice the same problem sometimes with my USB mouse but it happens only during IDE hard drive accesses, so I assume they're sharing an interrupt and competing (sorry, tech talk, but what I'm saying is the computer makes each peripheral wait in line to be serviced, and the USB mouse and hard drive have to wait in the same line, whereas a PS/2 mouse might stand in a different line altogether). Processor usage spikes are pretty normal so don't worry about that.

To: Crazy Canuck who wrote (9899)	1/9/2000 7:21:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

You might check to see if your hard drive is nearly full. The 100% processor usage at the time of the problem is a good clue if it is consistent. Do you monitor Free Memory too? [Edit] Just read your post again and you didn't say that the cursor problem coincides with cpu usage-spikes, so disregard. Does it depend on how many apps you have running at the time?

To: Crazy Canuck who wrote (9899)	1/9/2000 8:55:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

hi cc, i'll take a crack at another part of your post... "at times my cursor (not the mouse), seems to stick and jump around" you might want to try toning down the hardware acceleration. follow this clickstream: start\|setting\|control panel\|double click the system icon\|performance tab\|graphics tab\|slide the bar one notch to the left (see note there about mouse pointer)\|OK\|restart the computer for changes to take effect hope this helps, :) mark

To: Crazy Canuck who wrote (9899)	1/12/2000 9:18:00 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I have this same problem on a PII 350MHz machine with only one 17" monitor, and plenty of free disk space. It seems to hit after I have been running my stock data software (myTrack) and a browser window or two, plus a couple of mIRC windows. There is some connection between the "sticky cursor" and data transfers it seems. I often run Ping Plotter to monitor my network connection, and I find that if I am getting a lot of ping errors, I have a lot of sticking. When the sticking is very bad, I look and see all errors on the latest ping trace. Don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg. Is it the network errors affecting my system. or is it my system causing all the error reports? In fact, I have some sticking as I write this, with myTrack still running. I just closed that so I am now only running this one browser window (plus all that system stuff running behind it I know nothing about that you see when you do a Ctrl Alt Del). No more sticking. I restarted myTrack, and so far I don't have any cursor sticking. A question for all you multi-monitor users. Do I need to get a multi-monitor card, or can I add another single monitor card to my system to add a second monitor? Dan

To: Crazy Canuck who wrote (9899)	1/13/2000 8:28:00 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Crazy, This is a follow up to what I posted last night about the sticky cursor syndrome. Just for fun, I terminated all the processes that had been started on my machine at the time it booted up, except for Explorer. Then I ran my usual set of programs (myTrack, IB Workstation for trading, a couple of browser windows and a couple of mIRC windows, plus Ping Plotter to monitor my network connection. I didn't see a sticky cursor all day, even when my usual net failures occurred. I had run a defrag last night, but I've done that before and it didn't stop the problem. I also ran scandisk the night before, which identified several bad clusters, but I still had sticky cursor yesterday after that scandisk. I'll go back to normal operation tomorrow to see if the stickies return, but I'm thinking one of those things running behind the scenes may be causing the problem. I'll give you an update after tomorrow. You may want to try it yourself. Dan