If your clock is an hour slow and it was correct when you booted your system
then you have an application running that is stealing clock cycles and this
same application could be what is causing you to have problems with your
mouse. As I said perhaps you should think about posting details of the
applications you have running on your PC when this happens.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



bgaard wrote:

Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I reported above is what I
saw when my system slowed down. My clock was an hour
behind, cursor movement was jerky, everything was slow and
Wintop indicated that the CPU was 95% idle. I had 1 or 2
browser windows open at any given time, a word document,
and outlook express. My son encounters the same problem
when he plays on-line games (Warcraft). Shutting all of
the applications down does not improve performance - once
this behavior starts it continues until I reboot.