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

["John Brandt Sr." <pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,
To make sure it is a program problem, modify your autoexec.bat file for
one reboot. Add the following:
CD \windows
attrib -s -r -h *.swp
del *.swp
After you reboot, either comment them out with a REM statement before each
line, or remove it entirely. Defrag your drive(s). If your paging file
gets too large or too fragmented in Win98/98SE, it can cause your system
to thrash itself trying to find the fragments of the swap file.

John Brandt
iStudio400.com
(903) 523-0708
Home of iS/ODBC - MSSQL access FROM RPG.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 8:55 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

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