Brief Pauses in Mouse Pointer Movement

[John McGanty]

When I try to move the mouse pointer on my new XP
computer, it often pauses momentarily, before moving to
it's new location. It's as if there is a process running
in the background that briefly uses all of the machine's
computing power, preventing the pointer from responding
immediately to movements of the mouse. However, I only
have Office applications running on the machine, and it
has a Pentium 700MHz with plenty of RAM. I'd certainly
appreciate insights anyone has for correcting this
problem. Thanks much!

-- John

[Marshall G]

The mouse pointer on optical mice will pause like this if the surface
doesn't reflect well.
Try using a newspaper as the mouse surface. If they problem goes away, then
look into a different mousepad or surface.

Marshall
"John McGanty" > wrote in message
...
> When I try to move the mouse pointer on my new XP
> computer, it often pauses momentarily, before moving to
> it's new location. It's as if there is a process running
> in the background that briefly uses all of the machine's
> computing power, preventing the pointer from responding
> immediately to movements of the mouse. However, I only
> have Office applications running on the machine, and it
> has a Pentium 700MHz with plenty of RAM. I'd certainly
> appreciate insights anyone has for correcting this
> problem. Thanks much!
>
> -- John
>

[Brian Smither]

This happened to me when I was running McAfee's Anti-Virus, both version 4
and 7. Every 25-30 seconds the mouse pointer would stop for a split-second.
It just refused to move as opposed pausing then rapidly catching up. That
is, if I moved the mouse in a circular pattern, the pointer would begin
drawing a different circle at the point where it left off drawing when it
froze.

Disabling McAfee's dynamic scanning would stop the behavior. It did'nt
affect the COM1 mouse, just the USB mouse (don't have a PS/2 mouse
connected). Your mileage may vary.

"John McGanty" > wrote in
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> When I try to move the mouse pointer on my new XP
> computer, it often pauses momentarily,



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[Pam]

I am just recently having the same problem. I have a standard USB mouse and
do not have McAfee.
I have EZ Antivirus and run ZoneAlarm free as I have done for quite a long
time without this trouble. I've checked to make sure that messages are not
being compacted in the background with Outlook Express, too.
I was wondering if it had something to do with my cable connection since
Comcast recently took attbi and there were some problems.
Pam

"John McGanty" > wrote in message
...
> When I try to move the mouse pointer on my new XP
> computer, it often pauses momentarily, before moving to
> it's new location. It's as if there is a process running
> in the background that briefly uses all of the machine's
> computing power, preventing the pointer from responding
> immediately to movements of the mouse. However, I only
> have Office applications running on the machine, and it
> has a Pentium 700MHz with plenty of RAM. I'd certainly
> appreciate insights anyone has for correcting this
> problem. Thanks much!
>
> -- John
>