Windows XP Home SP3 [3 I think- Auto updates on..lol] I have no idea why this is happening. I have tried unilstalling, reinstalling, a different usb port, [it's the mouse that came with the system] Tried different mice…same trouble. Suggestions??? Thanks!
How much RAM do you have Becky?
1.
A lot of programs running with a small amount of RAM can be a big cause of mouse freeze-ups. As you already have tried different ports and various other mice, I'm suspecting possible low RAM capacity. If so, either install more RAM or run less programs.
2.
Have you been using a Registry cleaner?
STOP using it if you have been. Registry errors can be a cause of mouse problems and Reg. Cleaners are the number 2 cause of (growing) Reg. errors. No 1 cause is messing around with Reg. hacks by a user who is not 100% sure of what they are doing.
If you like, we can move on from here when the above 2 questions are answered first.
Cheers,
Lee
Is it only the mouse that freezes or the entire system freezes?
Only the mouse.
Lee- I have heard that low ram is a problem and that might be why. Please tell me how to check to see how much ram I have? [aside from tearing open the box]
Is there a way to tell ram vs program space/usage? I will gladly dump some programs if that will help things out a bit???
EDIT: I found that I have .99 GB of RAM, via Control Panel-System. Given that…how do I increase my ram [add a stick–obvious] but what else is there possible to do until I "add more RAM" —like is there any way to "clean up" RAM, or just dump programs?
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You definitely have several unnecessary processes running that may be consuming excessive amounts of system resources…. possibly contributing to the stuttering/lag
It is also apparent that your AntiMalware Suite - Trend Micro is running several processes constantly, consuming resources and again… possibly contributing to the stuttering/lag
Let's start with getting better control on your StartUp processes.
Then we may also need to address the matter of Trend Micro.
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Download and install, agreeing to the licensing terms and allow to install with all of the default settings as preselected in the installation wizard.
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Sorry about my photo quality (cheapo Camera). Both sides of RAM sticks (single click image).
That was GREAT info. and instruction there Doug Couldn't have put it better myself
It's a copy and paste into one of my 'Sage Tech. info. to remember' PC school books for sure.
Becky,
What Doug's instructions are leading to, is 'cutting the fat' (software fat) and in what software areas it can be reduced from or even totally removed! This will lead to a more healthy, responsive and alive PC
Considering today's modern software needs (all those 'Bells and Whistles') access to enough RAM 'Random Access Memory'; although .QAM 'Quick Access Memory' would have been a far more meaningful Layman's term. Even your Mouse needs some memory space .
My guess is your Mouse is being 'crowded out' of the RAM by the more powerful and RAM hungry Software in your OS which probably is XP? If it is Windows 7, you definitely have far too little RAM for anything to work efficiently.
If there is not enough RAM, the 'Paging File' ( a little slower than RAM) gets heavy use instead, or in the worst case scenario, the Hard Drive and we could call that process 'SAM' (Slow Access Memory)
I'm sure you have heard the old Techy saying: "You can never have enough RAM"!.
If you PC has only 512MB of RAM, That is only 1/2 a GB of RAM.
Today's new PC's are all loaded with the new Windows 7 Operating System (OS) that has so much 'eye candy' or 'bells and whistles' going on, it will need at least 2GB of RAM. Even an el-cheapo PC at any store, will contain at least 2GB of RAM and PC's a little further up the food-chain, but not by much, will contain 4GB of RAM, which is fairly standard RAM size.
Most probably, there will be 2 sticks of RAM in your mobo (2x256MB), but possibly only 1 stick of 516MB memory size. Inadequate for XP and useless for Windows 7 OS, So I'm guessing you have XP (?).
Those little bronze teeth on the RAM slot into your Motherboard's RAM slots. Usually there Will be 2 or 4 RAM 'slots' parallel to each other. The RAM slots in vertically into the slots on the Motherboard.. There is no power connection wires as they get their power from the board. To remove them, there is a little locking leaver at one end of the slot, lift it up and lift out the RAM stick. That little slot in the RAM's teeth. matches with a little stub inside the RAM slot, so it is impossible to put in the wrong way around. Notice in the photo that one side of the teeth is slightly longer than the other? That side goes to the right-hand side of the slot. The side with the locking latch on it.
It's easy-peasy to remove or insert RAM ….after your PC is turned off and unplugged of course. Always use cotton gloves to handle ram to make sure no finger-tip oil gets on them. Otherwise, like I do usually is just hold the ram by the very edges of thumb and forefinger.
What you probably need is 2 x 512MB sticks of RAM or ideally, 2x1GB sticks.
As your RAM size is so small, your PC is probably on the older side and you may have SD RAM.
The best thing to do would be to remove one of your RAM sticks and hop on down to a PC store and ask for some that matches what you have but with a larger capacity.
Everything that Doug is advising though still remains VERY important. Got to still 'cut the fat' and possibly remove some PC Resource Hog Software.('Bloatware').etc.
Cheers.
Lee
Sorry about my photo quality (cheapo Camera). Both sides of RAM sticks (single click image).
That was GREAT info. and instruction there Doug Couldn't have put it better myself
It's a copy and paste into one of my 'Sage Tech. info. to remember' PC school books for sure.
Becky,
What Doug's instructions are leading to, is 'cutting the fat' (software fat) and in what software areas it can be reduced from or even totally removed! This will lead to a more healthy, responsive and alive PC
Considering today's modern software needs (all those 'Bells and Whistles') access to enough RAM 'Random Access Memory'; although .QAM 'Quick Access Memory' would have been a far more meaningful Layman's term. Even your Mouse needs some memory space .
My guess is your Mouse is being 'crowded out' of the RAM by the more powerful and RAM hungry Software in your OS which probably is XP? If it is Windows 7, you definitely have far too little RAM for anything to work efficiently.
If there is not enough RAM, the 'Paging File' ( a little slower than RAM) gets heavy use instead, or in the worst case scenario, the Hard Drive and we could call that process 'SAM' (Slow Access Memory)
I'm sure you have heard the old Techy saying: "You can never have enough RAM"!.
If you PC has only 512MB of RAM, That is only 1/2 a GB of RAM.
Today's new PC's are all loaded with the new Windows 7 Operating System (OS) that has so much 'eye candy' or 'bells and whistles' going on, it will need at least 2GB of RAM. Even an el-cheapo PC at any store, will contain at least 2GB of RAM and PC's a little further up the food-chain, but not by much, will contain 4GB of RAM, which is fairly standard RAM size.
Most probably, there will be 2 sticks of RAM in your mobo (2x256MB), but possibly only 1 stick of 516MB memory size. Inadequate for XP and useless for Windows 7 OS, So I'm guessing you have XP (?).
Those little bronze teeth on the RAM slot into your Motherboard's RAM slots. Usually there Will be 2 or 4 RAM 'slots' parallel to each other. The RAM slots in vertically into the slots on the Motherboard.. There is no power connection wires as they get their power from the board. To remove them, there is a little locking leaver at one end of the slot, lift it up and lift out the RAM stick. That little slot in the RAM's teeth. matches with a little stub inside the RAM slot, so it is impossible to put in the wrong way around. Notice in the photo that one side of the teeth is slightly longer than the other? That side goes to the right-hand side of the slot. The side with the locking latch on it.
It's easy-peasy to remove or insert RAM ….after your PC is turned off and unplugged of course. Always use cotton gloves to handle ram to make sure no finger-tip oil gets on them. Otherwise, like I do usually is just hold the ram by the very edges of thumb and forefinger.
What you probably need is 2 x 512MB sticks of RAM or ideally, 2x1GB sticks.
As your RAM size is so small, your PC is probably on the older side and you may have SD RAM.
The best thing to do would be to remove one of your RAM sticks and hop on down to a PC store and ask for some that matches what you have but with a larger capacity.
Everything that Doug is advising though still remains VERY important. Got to still 'cut the fat' and possibly remove some PC Resource Hog Software.('Bloatware').etc.
Or just head over to Crucial.com to run their online scanner which will tell you exactly what type of RAM the machine presently has installed, and how much it is capable of handling, including various intermediary suggestions for upgrade of RAM/
You said, " I found that I have .99 GB of RAM". That's 1 GB of ram which is more than enough for XP. I don't think adding more will improve performance.
Follow Doug's instructions for reducing what starts when you boot your computer. I think that will make a real difference.
You have a lot of Audio and Video editing and conversion software, along with uTorrent (please be careful, easy way to pick up malware) along with Driver Checker and Driver Genius Professional Edition. No idea how much of that runs at boot time so it will be interesting to see what CodeStuff-Starters shows. Video editing consumes a lot of resources, especially ram, so if you do that a lot then more ram will help.
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In this machine belonging to Becky, you will discover that the machine already has 1GB (1024MB) which ought to be enough for general office, browsing and email.
I "prefer" 1GB "per" CPU core.
Becky's machine has two cores, each running at 1.6mHz
At 1.6mHz, that machine is never going to be a speed demon, but may benefit from another 1gb RAM if used for modest gaming, video and graphics viewing, or very modest graphics editing.
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You can Disable "all" items listed in CodeStuff Starters Startups – except UfSeAgnt.exe (which is your antivirus)
Any that you later find that you wish you still had active, you can use CodeStuff Starters to "Enable" them again.
Becky, I'm of the opinion that Trend Micro is consuming way too much of your system resources.
TrendMicro is a good product and is providing overall protection, but at high cost to the machine's performance.
I would prefer a lower impact selection of security tools.
Maybe either Avast! or Avira, plus Malwarebytes, plus SpywareBlaster or MVPS Hosts File
or
For your machine I would seriously consider the Microsoft Security Essentials plus MalwareBytes, plus MVPS Hosts File
What do you think of the above suggestions?
Yep Becky, 'Trend Micro' and not to put a too fine a point on it, is 'bloatware'. It has a very large resource hungry footprint. Not good for a 1GB PC at all.
If you really want to keep TM (and nothing wrong with it's performance ability), don't stick with 1GB of RAM, go for 2GB. The stuff is cheap as chips in the US ( I wish it was here in OZ) !
If you reduce some of your programs to 'light footprints'. IGB is fine on XP, as that's all I had for years and I was also able to play 2GB Games up to about 2008 vintage. I did have a 2.4GHz AMD64 CPU though..
I never saw .99GB in that post of yours. I only saw 99GB (I don't see too well).
Naturally I was thinking 99GB of RAM!? OK. I thought, "I'd better write something real basic about RAM, PC RAM requirements and a 'How To' about RAM removal and installation.
Doug's suggestions are all good ones, but personally I prefer the latest user friendly version of AVIRA. It has a small footprint and comes free. It's nothing like earlier versions that where far too 'noisy' and not so user friendly. When I first installed it, I was regularly checking it to see if it might have stopped working. It is so quite!
I personally do not like Microsoft Security Essentials, because as my wife recently found out on her PC, it's a little more than just an Anti-Virus and Melware protector!
Cheers,
Lee
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Graphics 2D and graphics 3D testing was COOOL!!! 
Couldn't have put it better myself 
Considering today's modern software needs (all those 'Bells and Whistles') access to enough RAM 'Random Access Memory'; although .QAM 'Quick Access Memory' would have been a far more meaningful Layman's term. Even your Mouse needs some memory space 
.
My guess is your Mouse is being 'crowded out' of the RAM by the more powerful and RAM hungry Software in your OS which probably is XP? If it is Windows 7, you definitely have far too little RAM for anything to work efficiently.
If there is not enough RAM, the 'Paging File' ( a little slower than RAM) gets heavy use instead, or in the worst case scenario, the Hard Drive and we could call that process 'SAM' (Slow Access Memory) 
I'm sure you have heard the old Techy saying: "You can never have enough RAM"!.
If you PC has only 512MB of RAM, That is only 1/2 a GB of RAM.
Today's new PC's are all loaded with the new Windows 7 Operating System (OS) that has so much 'eye candy' or 'bells and whistles' going on, it will need at least 2GB of RAM. Even an el-cheapo PC at any store, will contain at least 2GB of RAM and PC's a little further up the food-chain, but not by much, will contain 4GB of RAM, which is fairly standard RAM size.
Most probably, there will be 2 sticks of RAM in your mobo (2x256MB), but possibly only 1 stick of 516MB memory size. Inadequate for XP and useless for Windows 7 OS, So I'm guessing you have XP (?).
Those little bronze teeth on the RAM slot into your Motherboard's RAM slots. Usually there Will be 2 or 4 RAM 'slots' parallel to each other. The RAM slots in vertically into the slots on the Motherboard.. There is no power connection wires as they get their power from the board. To remove them, there is a little locking leaver at one end of the slot, lift it up and lift out the RAM stick. That little slot in the RAM's teeth. matches with a little stub inside the RAM slot, so it is impossible to put in the wrong way around. Notice in the photo that one side of the teeth is slightly longer than the other? That side goes to the right-hand side of the slot. The side with the locking latch on it.
It's easy-peasy to remove or insert RAM ….after your PC is turned off and unplugged of course. Always use cotton gloves to handle ram to make sure no finger-tip oil gets on them. Otherwise, like I do usually is just hold the ram by the very edges of thumb and forefinger.
What you probably need is 2 x 512MB sticks of RAM or ideally, 2x1GB sticks.
As your RAM size is so small, your PC is probably on the older side and you may have SD RAM.
The best thing to do would be to remove one of your RAM sticks and hop on down to a PC store and ask for some that matches what you have but with a larger capacity.
Everything that Doug is advising though still remains VERY important. Got to still 'cut the fat' and possibly remove some PC Resource Hog Software.('Bloatware').etc.
Cheers.
Lee 
