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?

I'm crious about the indexing too - is it potentially trying to scan your My
Music folder and process updates from there... ?

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"Bill Milosz" <BillMilosz@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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?

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?