how do i get rid of the hourglass seen every 10 seconds during normal operation

snovosel_at_comcast.net
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:22:10 -0700

>I did a search and did indeed find some "wtools" files
with .cfg, .exe, .dll extensions. Now what? Should I
delete one or all? Thanks.
Steve
>-----Original Message-----
>I experienced this problem with a customer's pc as
well.
>There was an application in task manager called wtools
(s)
>and wtools(a) that was causing the problem. Is there an
>application called wintools running on your system?
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I don't know what's up with my Dell laptop, but I
>>uninstalled some none-use applications the other day
and
>>now I get the hourglass reappearing every 10 seconds or
>>so. It doesn't affect operation of any application
>>however. It almost seems as though it's trying to open
>>an app or it's waiting for something to "start up".
>>
>>Any ideas on how to get rid of this annoyance.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Steve
>>.
>>
>.
>I did a search and did indeed find some "wtools" files
with .cfg, .exe, .dll extensions. Now what? Should I
delete one or all? Thanks.
Steve

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