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  3. September 2004

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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