Now, there's a thought.......
Heirloom, old and anxious to see what happens

"Rick T" wrote in message
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heirloom wrote:
Hey Rick,
I believe he had mentioned shutting down everything but Explorer and
Systray and still had the issue. The last clue Ken gave may be the
key......if he puts the pointer on an icon or in the Taskbar, it doesn't
fail......I am suspecting maybe the wallpaper??? (remote, I admit, but,
worth a shot)

or maybe disable ActiveDesktop (?)

Rick


Heirloom, old and need the answer to this one


"Rick T" wrote in message
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If this is a consistent thing you can shutdown those processes in
TaskManager to see at what point the hourglass disappears.


Rick


Justin Thyme wrote:

Sorry for the delayed response, Heirloom; I hadn't forgotten but I

wanted to

have a little more information for you before replying.

I'm familiar with Process Explorer and , frankly, it tells me zip. If
a
heart monitor was as flat as this thin green line the patient would be

cold

stone dead. Typically System Idle is between 96-97%; True Vector, Zone

Labs

Client, and Spam Filter, all part of ZoneAlarm, comprise together about

2%;

Sysinternals itself uses about 2%. If there are any smaller trace

usages

they don't show up. The only time a spike occurs is when I
deliberately
query one of the running processes and then only momentarily.

Luke, if you're reading this, the programs typically running when I do
a
Ctrl-Alt-Delete are, in order: Mozilla Firefox (if I've opened
Firefox);
Explorer; Zlclient (part of ZoneAlarm); Mantispm (Matador, part of

ZoneAlarm

spamblocker); Vsmon (part of ZoneAlarm); Em_exec (part of Logitech);
Systray; and Isafe (part of ZoneAlarm). For those time when I use

Internet

Explorer in lieu of Firefox I will see Cpal and Cpbrwtch (from Cookie

Pal, a

cookie screener app that I've used for years).

That's it. The hourglass and mouse pointer aren't always associated
together when I'm ready to shutdown, but perhaps 90% of the time.

Ken Bland
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"heirloom" wrote in message
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Get Process Explorer, free, from www.sysinternals.com . Along with

showing


you every active process (to include background) and the amount of cpu
cycles in %, used by each, it will also keep a short recording of

running

items and their usage. In the upper right of the PE GUI, you will see

the

graph (green line), if you hover your pointer over any 'spike' it will

tell


you what process made it. Might help you narrow down what it

happening.

Heirloom, old and due a process