pointer freeze

[michaelcov]

Hi.
I have a recent problem that occurs every other time I boot into win98 SE...
Once the desktop is up and I try to move the mouse, it moves for a second then freezes.
I know this is abit general, but does anyone know the best place to look for problems?

Thanks.
MJH.

[reghakr]

In general:
The things that make the computer slow are the many unneccessary items that automatically startup when Windows starts.

Right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature.

For the others, go to Start>Run, type msconfig. Leave systray, scan registry, Load Power Profile (both), your virus scanner and firewall if you have one.

Go to Start>Run, type sysedit. Look over the autoexec.bat for unneccessary lines, click the win.ini and check for programs loading here:
[windows]
load=
run=

Open Explorer and navigate to c:\windows\temp and delete all files here. Empty the Recycle Bin.

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver, then run scandisk and defrag.

If you don't know what an entry is or what it does, post back.

reghakr

[dragon]

Hi reghakr,

I got similar problem with my Microsoft 2000 wheel mouse. I can move the mouse pointer freely for hours. But, suddenly it freezes. Re-starting didn't help. My pc is running at 1Ghz on 256M sdram. Once the pointer freezes I can do nothing but to power off the pc. My only cure is to change the mouse to the 2-button PS/2 microsoft mouse because pointer freezing never happen with this simply mouse, then re-install the MS intelliPoint 3.1 mouse driver, swap back to wheel mouse again. Usually there are about 10 icons in the tray area and they are essential.
In win.ini, it looks this :
[window]
load=
run=hpfsched
I frequently run scandisk and defraq to prevent freezing. It seems these didn't help.

I wonder if there is any other remedial method in tweaking the registry or system parameters.