RE: [PCTECH] Constant windows pointer switching between arrow & h ourglass

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

Have you tried AdAware and SpyBot?  It could be
malware hidden somewhere - especially with 
teenagers in the house ;-)  

Any special toolbars loaded to your browser?
Have heard there's a few of these that can
cause this type of problem.

Terry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Bale
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:55 AM
> To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PCTECH] Constant windows pointer switching between 
> arrow & hourglass
> 
> 
> This is that Win98SE beast I've been posting about off and on 
> the past few
> months.  AVG antivirus gives a clean check and so does the 
> latest/greatest
> Spybot.
> 
> Anybody know what can cause the windows pointer to switch 
> between the arrow
> & hourglass figures constantly?  It's annoying and a problem 
> because the
> behavior makes it near impossible to type a URL in the 
> address window in the
> browser.  (What happens is that you'll be typing in the 
> address, the pointer
> "activates", and that causes the text in the address window 
> to be selected,
> so that the next character you type replaces the selection.)  
> This has only
> been happening for the past 4 or 5 days.  I can't think of 
> anything I might
> have done to it.  Of course, I have that 15-year old I've 
> mentioned before.
> <sigh>
> 
> tia,
> db