The cursor keeps switching back and forth from arrow to arrow and hourglass. Why and how to fix it?
This is an occurrence that has just started and in the past it was my understanding that when the arrow and hourglass were being displayed together it indicated there was some activity in the computer, but of late it will switch from the pointing arrow to small arrow & hourglass when I am not touching anything or when writing a letter or something else it will switch without me doing anything to indicate that I am ready for it to do anything.
Try running a full virus scan. Maybe you have a virus/spyware/adware running in the background. You can hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and click on task manager and see what is running in the background as programs and processes. Click the button that says show all processes from all users.
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