This is gonna be somewhat big, I have a lot of info so people wont tell me stuff I've already tried and hopefully know the answer. First I will tell you the exact problem: This only happens to me sometimes, it comes and goes. What happens is my cursor flashes around like mad whenever I scroll over something or it is loading. It shows both the arrow and whatever other action I am doing in a fast flashing motion.. like the arrow and the hourglass, drag, the thing while over a text box, or the most annoying it over other cursors and or crosshairs in programs and games.. I play counter-Strike and when the Cursor flashes over the crosshair it is not only very distracting and annoying it also lags me A lot. Sometimes it seems like I am on 56k ( I am on DSL) It started doing this once I installed my video card.. All my drivers are up to date and working correct however... So after maybe 7 months of trying to live with it I finally came to the idea that I should try closing every program on my computer one at a time and see what one may cause it. I use EndItAll By The Way.. So I was going threw stuff that I have found on program lists saying it is required for certain things like getting online or just safe browsing... So I got to Msgsrv32 and even though it prompt me before I went threw with it since I wanted to know the problem.. Sure enough my cursor than went right back to normal. Now I thought it could be a concidence and I restarted trying it again... lucky my cursor was still messed up when I restarted so I tried the same thing.. again it fixed it... So now I was almost sure it was the problem and went to google... I typed in "cursor MSGSRV" and found 140 pages... I looked threw every single one, here's what I found: 1.There is some issue related to Msgsrv32 and the mouse cursor, very much like mine it flashes around and slows you down, but it has to do with palm.. Palm gives out a cable that fixes the problem, but its for palm only... 2.The problem has something to do with ACPI.. Now I dont know much about ACPI, but I am fine with turning it off if all will do is make the system use a bit more power or something, dont want it screwing me u So here is what I want from you guys: 1.Is it safe to close Msgsrv32???? or should I not be doing this??? all I know is it does background stuff and loads/unloads drivers 2.I was wondering if it is safe to disable the following in your device manager, would my system still work right? I'd also like to know what each one does: ACPI system Button ACPI Bios SCI IRQ used by ACPI bus 3.Do you have any other ideas which you think may solve the problem or that I should check to make sure nothing is wrong? current setup: Acer v75M Mobo AMD K6-2 500mhz processor 256MB SDRAM 133 (max supported by mobo) 13GB HD CTX Pl-5 monitor CDRom CDRW 3.5" disk Visiontek Nvidia Geforce4MX 420 64MB PCI (I dont have agp) Linskys 10/100 LAN card Efficent Networks ADSL speedstream 5360 modem 300 Watt power supply on board sound IBM Rapid Acess keyboard Microsoft wheel mouse OS - Windows 98SE all programs I have running when this occours: Aptezbp - program to run IBM rapid acess keyboard Conmgr - connection manager (internet) DDhelp - Directxhelp (not sure why I need it) Explorer - Starts Windows Explorer MPRexe - enables the computer to have multiple clients/protocols for networks. tapisrv - Telephony API Server (in full : Telephony Application Programming Interface Server) taskmon - task monitor winpppoverthernet - enables DSL use (winpoet) wmiexe - NT component, used by Windows Millennium to detect Plug and Play-compliant IEEE 1394 devices during the startup process ( I have 98se?) EndItAll - closes programs and allows you to see background programs as well Kernel32.dll - somethign with windows.. rnappp - Windows Dial-Up Networking application. systray - runs the Windows System Tray, which is that part of the Task Bar Thank you.

Zoda, Your post is so well written that I only wish that I had the technical knowledge to provide you the answer you seek, but I do not. I can see this MS article relates to PC cards but perhaps there is something within the 'workaround' that may also help you. From the above mentioned MS articale: Quote WORKAROUND To work around this issue, remove the ability for Windows or the BIOS to change (rebalance) the host controller's resources by using the following steps: Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click System (if the System icon is not displayed in Control Panel, click the View all Control Panel icons link on the left side of Control Panel). On the Device Manager tab, click the plus sign (+) next to Universal Serial Bus Controllers. Click USB Host Controller, and then click the Properties button. On the Resources tab, click to clear the Use Automatic Settings check box. Choose a basic configuration from the list that does not cause device(s) to appear in the Conflicting Device List, and then click OK. You may receive a warning message that indicates that Plug and Play functionality is limited by forcing a specific configuration. Click Yes to continue. Click Close. Restart your computer. NOTE: In some circumstances you may not be able to manually set the basic configuration for the USB host controller, so this workaround does not work. If you insert a PC Card after you use this workaround, your computer may become unstable. For example, you may not be able to restart your computer after the device recognition. If this behavior occurs, remove the USB device before you insert the PC Card. Then, after you insert the PC Card, connect the USB device again. Unquote I suggest this beacuse I had a (not as bad) problem that was caused by my PC looking for an installed JoyStick that was not attached to the system. My PC had this problem exactly every 60 seconds. I discovered this using the Filemon program. I disabled the joystick in Device manager and the problem went away. HTH Bryan

thanks, but that didnt help... I did however learn one thing over the wekend.. It is not a good idea to remove the ACPI bios from the device manager, if you select view by connection you will see it has everything connected to it. me doing this resulted in days(friday night,saturday and sunday morning) of trying to fix all sorts of errors and hardware problems... I kept getting rundll errors and then my sound wouldnt respond no matter what... the drivers were installed, nothign was muted, but when I used the keyboards sound control it said I had no sound card.... it was odd.. Reinstalling windows fixed nearly everything. I guess I can live like this and just close Msgsrv32 before playing games.... It's a small price to pay... IS there any reason I shouldnt be doing this??? and if so does anyone have any more ideas or solutions?

Zoda, I am surprised that there was not a single respondent beyond myself. It often happens that the timiing of the posting determines the quantity and quality of the responses. I might suggest reposting and referring to this post for reference. Additionally you may try posting on VirtualDR WIn98's forum board. Many of the same people visit there that come here but perhaps your timing will yield better results. I have not been presented with a challenge in Windows that I was not able to eventually overcome. Good luck. Bryan