Re: Hourglass flashes every couple of minutes

Greetings,

Messenger shouldn't be doing this; can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by "msmsgs
processes"? aka what kind of usage is it using (assuming that's what you're referring to) and
what happens if you kill the Messenger process?

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"Zero_Kelvin" <ZeroKelvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FC596C27-1BC9-4E78-B9B5-C725CA7965A4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dont know if it something i wavent noticed before but every few minutes the
> hourglass appears beside the pointer it is just a flash but i monitoredthe
> task manager and very time this occurs msmsgs processes is this normal or is
> it something i should be worrying about


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