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trouble with cursor
Name: clint11 Date: September 19, 2003 at 13:07:46 Pacific OS: win me CPU/Ram: amd athlon
Comment:
can anybody tell me why my cursor changes to a timer when i go down to my task bar, everything is working ok apart from this anybody got any ideas
Name: OtheHill Date: September 19, 2003 at 13:25:40 Pacific
Reply:
How much memory do you have? If windows can't fully load in memory then it has to access the HD, hence a lag. This may not be your problem but I have had that same thing happen in the past. I remember reading some time back that Win98 needed 47Mb of memory just to load properly. That is why when memory was much more expensive the big vendors were building machines with 48Mb instead of 32 or 64.
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Response Number 2
Name: fred Date: September 19, 2003 at 14:19:57 Pacific
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