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Why does the time stop when the mouse cursor stops?

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I am using Windows 7 Enterprise on my Dell optiplex 760. This problem is very strange, the time on the computer stops moving when I stop moving the mouse cursor. This only happens when the computer is ON. It seems the time moves with the computer off.

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Clarifications

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Clarifications

because there is something very, very wrong with the universe.

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Or maybe your computer. The clock doesn’t advance at all if you leave it unattended? Does the clock skip ahead to the current correct time when you move the mouse again, or does it just pick up where it left off, lagging behind?

Gotta be

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Chirality.

I did not attend to it. I left it for an exorcist.

Oh,er, hm.

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Ah. But chirality of what?

The hunt is on.

I may need to contact Thomas Pynchon.

At the time

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I was in Redondo Beach, holed up on the Esplanade, next-door to his Manhattan Beach, which, by the way, stunk of oil fumes from the refineries.

Further off-topic drift.

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Strangely enough, I actually happen to have been briefly acquainted with that area, as well as Whittier and Compton.

Tad further

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I don’t recall reading anything he wrote, though I may have, but he very well may have been reading what I was writing for Copley News at the time.

I would be very worried if the time on your PC changed when OFF

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But that aside, does the time change at all. I mean if you left the PC on and walked away for 10 minutes, when you came back would the time stay at the “10 minutes ago” time?
Could be a power save kinda thing?

I think it’s a primitive productivity measure…

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It clocks his working time, not the time elapsed. No working, no pay!

Filthy, dirty, sneaky and disgusting

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…Yet, brilliant!

Most of us have a salary or hourly rate; but this bloke has a minutely rate!

A thought.

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I don’t know why the system clock would be entirely dependent on such a thing, but do you have it set to get frequent updates from a timeserver? And if you do, do you also have the network card set to turn itself off to save power when not in use?

Did you ever resolve this issue?

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Did you ever find out the cause of this issue? We are in the middle of Windows 7 migrations and just started having this issue yesterday on some computers while in WinPE and once Windows was installed. The same Windows image worked on two other computers the same day.

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nevermind I got it fixed yesterday. The Optiplex 760s needed a BIOS upgrade. I completed forgot that when we first started installing Windows 7 individually over a year ago that Windows 7 was emtrmely sluggish like it had a bad hard drive and a BIOS upgrade resolved the problem. Dell never had a cause but the BIOS upgrade did resolve the problem.

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