I have an hourglass that appears next to my cursor; it pops up every 6-9 seconds, leaves, then comes back. System seems to be running ok overall, with the exception that at some points during the day, the internet slows way down, which it never did prior to this hourglass. Rebooting seems to fix this for a while. I'm running Windows XP on an HP desktop that has 3G of RAM and 140G of space left on a 500G HD. This PC is, I think, 4 years old.
I've run a Norton Scan several times, doesn't appear to be any viruses or such. I also just ran a Microsoft safety scanner which did find 15 bad files, which I believe were deleted. I saw some other online threads that said certain newly installed software might cause this; the only new software I put in was when I bought a new HP All-in-One printer last week.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
Paris
