flashing cursor/donut

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Burton Roberts

I'm using Vista Ultimate with 2gb RAM
When I'm programming in Visual Studio 2008 and I query the Help files,
usually the application finds the page and hangs for a while, while the
mouse arrow flashes rapidly back and forth between an arrow and a doughnut.
After a minute or two it settles down and I can go on with my work.

Do I need more memory?
 
Burton said:
I'm using Vista Ultimate with 2gb RAM
When I'm programming in Visual Studio 2008 and I query the Help files,
usually the application finds the page and hangs for a while, while the
mouse arrow flashes rapidly back and forth between an arrow and a
doughnut. After a minute or two it settles down and I can go on with my
work.

Do I need more memory?
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It depends on what else is running. If you don't have a lot of other
programs/processes going in the background then adding more memory would be
A Good Thing. 2GB is what I consider the *minimum* for "normal" happy
behavior for Vista. If you can, try adding another 1GB. There is no point
in adding more unless you have Vista 64-bit.

Malke
 
mouse arrow flashes rapidly back and forth between an arrow and a doughnut.

Do I need more memory?
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No, try coffee. If you have donuts you should also have coffee.
 
Also check out in task manager whether you are maxing out on CPU cycles,
particularly if you have mult-core CPU's. I found that many times I have
one core maxing out and the other barely used. You can manually set the
affinity to balance thing out.
 
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