Random Mouse Hesitation

[DudlyWerks]

Stats: Socket Seven Motherboard; 500Mhz AMD; 256 Ram; Running Win98/IE5.5 with a DSL connection (Mindspring).

Problem: The mouse icon will randomly hesitate for 2 to 5 seconds. It seems to happen most often while on-line, but will also happen during normal desktop applications.

Solution Attempts: Following the suggestions from previous threads; All general disk drive maintenance completed: defrag; scandisk; empty bs files & recycle bin; Set File System Performance from Desktop to Network computer; hwinfo /ui sez all is OK. Systray is running at minimum (no virus checker). At boot-up the system resources are at 92% and 84% while on-line. All proper drivers have been verified.

Any other suggestions?????????

 

[ray436]

Did you axe FindFast?

I would, its on the startup menu - MSoffice "blesses" you with it. Big waste of resources.

Is there hard disk activity during the pause?

ray

 

[DudlyWerks]

Thanks for the response Ray, FindFast was previously hunted down and took it like a champ when deleted.

No, the hard drive is quiet during the pause.

 

[RickSpr]

I used to have a similar symptom that I discovered was caused by my BIOS power saving parameters. I had screwed them up and my hard drive was powering down after only a few minutes. It took me months to figure it out! Also check the Power applet in Control Panel, and Display Properties on the Screen Saver tab.