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07-02-2008
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| | Why does cursor rapidly blink w/ "Vista hourglass" when WMP is ope When I have Windows Media Player v.11 open, my cursor blinks rapidly back and forth between arrow pointer and the rotating circle "Vista Hourglass"- this is very irritating. It's very distrating to use a cursor that is very rapidly "stuttering" or "flashing" back and forth between the rotating circle "Vista Hourglass" and the arrow. Windows Media Player shows only 1% or so CPU usage; It stops when I close Windows Media Player. But I should be able to have Windows Meida Player open and idle without having this annoying super-fast blinking cursor-rotating circle "Vista Hourglass" thing. I have a fast machine, 5.9 in all Windows User Experience categories. Vista 64-bit, 8 GB RAM, 4 GHz dual-core CPU, etc etc. Vista Ultimate, SP2, completely patched to latest level, latest WHQL video drivers from Nvidia, latest WHQL drivers for all hardware. I have no additional codecs or plugins installed in Windows Media Player. I have checked all the settings in Windows Media player to try to find if it is indexing or doing some other useless background activity that I can turn off, and I can't find anything. Any suggestions? |
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07-30-2008
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| | Re: Why does cursor rapidly blink w/ "Vista hourglass" when WMP is ope I'm crious about the indexing too - is it potentially trying to scan your My Music folder and process updates from there... ? -- Speaking for myself only. See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- "Bill Milosz" <BillMilosz@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B8596BAC-496C-4229-8FAF-75B2A07E6C73@xxxxxx Quote: > When I have Windows Media Player v.11 open, my cursor blinks rapidly back > and > forth between arrow pointer and the rotating circle "Vista Hourglass"- > this > is very irritating. It's very distrating to use a cursor that is very > rapidly "stuttering" or "flashing" back and forth between the rotating > circle > "Vista Hourglass" and the arrow. Windows Media Player shows only 1% or so > CPU usage; It stops when I close Windows Media Player. But I should be > able > to have Windows Meida Player open and idle without having this annoying > super-fast blinking cursor-rotating circle "Vista Hourglass" thing. > > > I have a fast machine, 5.9 in all Windows User Experience categories. > Vista > 64-bit, 8 GB RAM, 4 GHz dual-core CPU, etc etc. Vista Ultimate, SP2, > completely patched to latest level, latest WHQL video drivers from Nvidia, > latest WHQL drivers for all hardware. I have no additional codecs or > plugins > installed in Windows Media Player. > > I have checked all the settings in Windows Media player to try to find if > it > is indexing or doing some other useless background activity that I can > turn > off, and I can't find anything. > > Any suggestions? |
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07-02-2009
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| Vista Home Basic 32bit | Re: Why does cursor rapidly blink w/ "Vista hourglass" when WMP is ope I am having the same annoying problem: When I have Windows Media Player v.11 open, my cursor blinks rapidly back and forth between arrow pointer and the rotating circle "Vista Hourglass"- needless to say this is VERY irritating. It really is very distrating to use a cursor that is very rapidly "stuttering" or "flashing" back and forth between the rotating circle "Vista Hourglass" and the arrow. It does stop when I close Windows Media Player. But I should be able to have Windows Media Player open and idle without having this annoying super-fast blinking cursor-rotating circle "Vista Hourglass" thing. Anyone can help? |
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