XP?
Right click on the taskbar to call up the taskbar menu, choose 'task manager'.
Click the processes tab.
Clcik 'name' header to put in alphabetical order.
Look through the processes running.
One will say an outrageous number of processor usage or memory usage.
Thanks Dark 1, but I tried that a hundred times. I see nothing showing a raise in CPU's. It spikes but doesn't show anything to grab onto.
It's not spiking high.. maybe to four or six, but when I'm using software it's slowing me down. It seems something else is using the hard drive.
I have googled the problem to death, and I'm using the original mouse that came with the puter, and all the settings seem fine.
I had it last year when I was here too.
OMG.. after all this time, I think I might have found the problem. Been trying since last year. I have both fingers, toes, eyes and legs crossed.
I had a start up Monitor on, and I shut it down.. I haven't seen the hourglass since.