hourglass symbol popping up while in idle

From: Fat and Wet (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/30/04


Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:27:46 -0700


>-----Original Message-----
>The hourglass symbol will intermittently pop up beside
>the pointer / arrow, while any given program is idling.
>
>In addition the PC / ACTIVITY light on the cable modem is
>always flickering. Small intermittent sounds coming from
>hard drive also.
>
>Have run spyware, trojanware scans but there is nothing
>detected.
>
>Thanks for your time.

You're being overly paranoid. It could be your anti-virus
updating its virus definitions/updates or any other of a
variety of backround processes doing their thing.