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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2015-07-01T12:30:29+00:00

What worked for me...

by knepster / June 7, 2015 6:07 AM PDT

In reply to: Cursor Constantly has a Flashing Busy Circle

Sorry if this is a repeat solution as there are already many suggestions out there.

My machine; Lenovo Ideapad Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center

After weeks of narrowing down potential causes of intermittent busy cursor flash (by watching Task Manager CPU usage list and using End Task on programs that appeared to have no critical value), the problem seems solved for me by Task Manager - End Task of "RunSwUSB.exe."

The web description of "RunSwUSB.exe," and link to it, are shown below:

http://www.file.net/process/runsw.exe.html

The process known as RunSwUSB belongs to software runSW Application by unknown.

Description: RunSW.exe is not essential for the Windows OS and causes relatively few problems. The file runSW.exe is located in the C:\Windows folder. The file size on Windows 8/7/XP is 36,864 bytes. http://www.file.net/process/runsw.exe.html

There is no file information. RunSW.exe is an unknown file in the Windows folder. The program has no visible window. RunSW.exe is not a Windows core file. RunSW.exe is able to monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 59% dangerous.

Seems like there are lot's of different causes out there for this problem - maybe this fix will work for you.

Regards,

knepster
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