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by davidreskin

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Intermittently, my cursor operates at about 1/10 speed (and slows from there to a virtual standstill) upon booting up in the a.m.; often, it's only after I open either IE or Word 2000 that the problem begins. One or two reboots minimum are necessary to correct the flaw. The system then performs normally for the duration of the session. This happens on average every 3-4 days, on the other days booting normally. I'm using a simple MS mouse (checked for driver updates and I have the latest one), AMD K-6 400 chip, Windows 98SE. I've stripped my Start menu down to the basics.... I think. The problem has surfaced only since I installed (and subsequently uninstalled, save for the Virus Scan) McAfee Office 3.0 and did same for a recent incarnation of Napster. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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by devin.ellis

We have had a similar problem here at work with 7800 laptops. We have to download a patch from Compaq. Maybe you could look on your hardware/software vendors websites for patches??? Probably not much help but I thought I'd give it a shot. Good luck.

by don christner

Are you certain that your virus scanner isn't running a scan on your harddrive and using most of your processor's power? Look at the schedule for your scans, does it coincide with your slow mouse?

Don

by davidreskin

My thanks to Devin and Don, and sorry to be so late in responding to the responses, out of town tending a sick relative.

Unfortunately neither of the two worthy suggestions by the two worthies was of any help - my computer is a cobbled-together mishmash, no unified manufacturer; no virus programs running without me knowing about it. Alas, I continue to struggle and, once again, appreciate the input.

by estebandelatorre

When mouses get slowed down, there's a lack of cpu in the system.
Disable the index finder from the start.
Watch for any submitted task in the background such as defrag, or virus scan
Delete .tmp files. You may have plenty tmp files (most time under windwos\ directory, and it may take a long time to launch an application.
Look with sysedit at the RUN= statement of win.ini file
Use Norton to scan your disk for faulty sectors, when an app launches and try to write into faulty sectors, this may take time...

I hope you appreciete my input.

by davidreskin

Thank you, edt. I hated to select "unacceptable" to characterize your answer, but only had two options! In fact I tried some of what you suggested, i.e. deleting .tmp files (although I keep them clean regularly). I have no b.g. tasks running but the regular virusscan and zone alarm, and these were running long before I started experiencing mouse probs. I run scandisk once a week, and a thorough surface scan regularly. BUT I have questions about the following: found no RUN= statements in win.ini, and not sure how to disable index finder (is that "find" in the start menu?). Obviously, I'm less technically minded than I perhaps should be.... All in all, many thanks, and if you have any other suggestions, I'm all ears, er, fingers. DR

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