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   Win Explorer Mystery-- Good-Samaritan Sh   
   11 Dec 07 11:26:58   
   
   From: drshi@optonline.net   
      
   Often and for no apparent reason the cursor begins to move as if through mud   
   whenever the WE window is active (e.g. I have to move the mouse twice as far   
   as usual to get the cursor where I want it on the screen). This can happen   
   while WE is open or when I reopen it. This poky cursor is the only symptom;   
   everything other WE feature works fine. It used to happen infrequently in   
   the past and was solved by defragging the drive; but now it occurs often and   
   I'm out of ideas as to what's causing it.   
      
   I've run my topnotch antivirus and spyware apps, defragged and optimized the   
   drive, shut down ALL active tasks, and made sure CPU usage is low and there's   
   plenty of available memory (close to 90%) -- all to no avail. Because of   
   this problem, I've installed an alternate file manager which works fine when   
   WE's dragging, but now I find that sometimes the other file manager starts   
   to drag and WE works fine; and sometimes both start to drag! The only   
   temporary cures I've found so far are: (1) rebooting, and (2) sometimes,   
   after a while, the program simply returns to normal on its own!   
      
   I know this may sound like a small glitch, but it's a real hassle having to   
   move the mouse all the way to the edge of its pad then pick it up and put it   
   down on the opposite edge just to get the cursor all the way over to where I   
   want it on the screen. I'm stumped and would appreciate any ideas anyone   
   might have. Thanks. (Win XP Home SP2, current updates)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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