Mouse Getting Dozzzzzy

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Last time I had sluggish mouse performance, it was caused by ctfmon, some
monitoring app that was running constantly in the background and made
desktop performance slow to a crawl... check your running processes and see
if ctfmon is there. In my case it was installed together with Office...
uninstalling it with office installer didn't make it go away so I had to
manually remove it with msconfig.

/Icarus

Bitstring <bo6kk4$18jfn@ID-173606.news.uni-berlin.de wonderful person Steve Almond < <snip
Does logging off and the logging back on again clear the problem? if so,
then pounds to pennies it is some sort of memory leak, or some left-over
process thread tying things up.

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Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

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Dan,

Thanks for the ideas. I've been running some fairly intensive investment
programmes. Maybe these are soaking up the memory and not releasing it. I've
just built/upgraded this PC with the following:

Windows XP Pro
512MB PC3200
Maxtor 120GB SATA hard drive (almost empty)
XP 2500+ CPU

When I run backtests in my investment software (Amibroker), the programme
shows 156,000 K memory usage and 99% CPU. When the backtest completes the
memory usage remains at ~150,000 K.
Thing is, I used this programme often before my major rebuild without the
mouse problems!
I'll try and dig out an old mouse and see the effect.

Steve

Quite a few things could be causing this. If it's only optical mice (mouses)
have you tried using a standard mouse (ps2 or usb) to see what happens after
a few hours? I doubt it would be a graphics issue unless your experiencing
other "graphics" problems, which could then point to a graphics card getting
hotter.

Somehow I think the key is in the fact it only happens after a while. The
more the computer is on the more the swap file and the RAM are getting
clogged up, and maybe something somewhere (perhaps a background program) are
slowing down the mouse handler routines. Maybe try closing down any other
software you've got running.

It could be one of many system probs, but I don't suspect graphics. However
I'd need more info on your system setup (OS, Ram, Hard drive (and how much
free space), cpu, what programs you have that start automatically on reboot
etc...) before I could begin to narrow it down properly.

I will have a rethink and let you know if i come across anything. in the
meantime someone else might already know and have solved this dilemma!!

Cheers

Dan

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's not your video card as such. might well be a driver issue though.