mouse cursor keep flashing as busy constantly

Anonymous

hi,

I have a sony vaio 17" laptop.

yesterday I made some update of "Vaio Care". after that my mouse cursor is keep blinking with busy circle.

it show normal cursor when I type something or my mouse is on any line.

but when ever my mouse come on its default icon it start blinking

few months back I face same problem then I just restore it.

please help me to solve this problem

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Anonymous

I guess I have found the ultimate solution. There are many many threads on many forums about this issue but none have any specific solution but to take you off the route with unnecessary questions in return.

Solution:

Go to TaskManager
Click CPU% tab to sort the highest usage task to top
Find the process with name *spool* or *spooler* in it
Kill it (end process)

Reason: If you have tried to print a page/selection on a browser (especially Chrome) and due to some reason if the printer is not connected or having connection issues, you might have tried to print more than once. This print process/spool usually do not show in the systray. No matter how many times you reboot, it may not go away. On every restart, it picks the spool again causing flickering (whether the printer connection is fixed or not). So try the procedure above, this should fix the problem.

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Anonymous

For me it was the nvidia game center causing the flicker. I killed the nvidia update services and it worked.

Just posting this in case anyone else stumbles around the internet looking for an answer.

Windows 7 nVidia GeForce GTX 275 card

I had the same issue and disabled Nvidia Streamer Service and at last the flicker stopped :)

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Anonymous

Same problem dude. Then I run AVAST antivirus freeware, which smoothly conducted all the removal of malwares. Not busy anymore.

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Anonymous

THANK YOU SO MUCH, it helps me a lot and saved me from a headache.

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Anonymous

2015-12-14T05:33:46+00:00
Laptop: HP Envy dv6 Notebook PC

OS: Windows 10 Home [64-bit]

Hey, anyone reading this should realise that this problem can be caused by a bunch of other issues and hence there are different solutions.

For some it's OneDrive syncing (check the top answer) causing the problem, while for some others it's the 'spooler' task (caused by a pending/lost printing job), it could also be the antivirus in other cases.

For me however, it was none of those 3 but HP SimplePass the cause of trouble. An indicator would be if you try starting it and the screen just flashes, and nothing else. I would recommend trying this solution first:

Here

, if it's to no avail go ahead and try this:

Search>Device Manager

Device Manager>Biometric Devices>Validity Sensors

3.Right click>Disable

You may restart your computer and enable it again to see if the blinking cursor pops up again, if it does (like in my case), disable the sensors and perform a clean boot. When your computer is back on, enable the sensors, the flashing cursor has finally been killed!
Wow. I just updated my laptop to Windows 10 (I lost the charger) and kept having this problem. Thank you so much, this worked right away. Nothing else worked and uninstalled many application.

I have HP Envy m6 and HP has no drivers to download or have any support for Windows 10.
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