Recently when opening a window a spining multicolored pinwheel replaces the cursor. what's going on?

Reccently when opening a window a spining multicolored pinwheel replaces the cursor. what is going on?

I'm not an expert on this, but it could indicate different problems. I assume that the pinwheel goes away after a while. If not, then seems that the activity in the window is locked up.
You might look at the memory usage on your computer. Open Activity Monitor in your Utilities folder and look at the memory usage on your computer. You may not have enough ram.
If you hadn't shut down and restarted your computer lately, you may try doing that to see if it clears up temp files and free up some memory. If you don't have enough memory, try closing other applications to see if it helps any.
You can also look at the CPU usage in Activity Monitor to see what's using up any high percentage of the CPU.

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