Posted July 2, 200816 yr When I have Windows Media Player v.11 open, my cursor blinks rapidly back and forth between arrow pointer and the rotating circle "Vista Hourglass"- this is very irritating. It's very distrating to use a cursor that is very rapidly "stuttering" or "flashing" back and forth between the rotating circle "Vista Hourglass" and the arrow. Windows Media Player shows only 1% or so CPU usage It stops when I close Windows Media Player. But I should be able to have Windows Meida Player open and idle without having this annoying super-fast blinking cursor-rotating circle "Vista Hourglass" thing. I have a fast machine, 5.9 in all Windows User Experience categories. Vista 64-bit, 8 GB RAM, 4 GHz dual-core CPU, etc etc. Vista Ultimate, SP2, completely patched to latest level, latest WHQL video drivers from Nvidia, latest WHQL drivers for all hardware. I have no additional codecs or plugins installed in Windows Media Player. I have checked all the settings in Windows Media player to try to find if it is indexing or doing some other useless background activity that I can turn off, and I can't find anything. Any suggestions?
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