How do I keep my cursor from going to the hour glass all the time?

Answer 1

well thats easy but kinda werid but ok
Step 1. get into your control panel. if you are useing the old style menu from 98 then its under settings. if you are use the XP menu then its easy to find
Step 2. Once you are in the control panel click Mouse
Step 3. Click Pointers
Step 4. Find the Hour Glass one
Step 5. Click Browse and select the normal mouse for you. mine i think name is 3darro

-Good Luck

Answer 2

That usually means you have too little memory for the kinds of things you are doing so the computer is spending a lot of time swapping tasks to the disk drive. Quick fix is buy more (if you can fit it in the computer) and get up to at least 512M or 1G.
I find that IE7 is very bad for building up old copies of pages you have recently visited, getting slower and slower. I have mine set to clear cached pages (under Tools, Internet Options) each time I close and I close every IE window when I get done. It may take 10-20 seconds or more to close down the last window as it clears the cache. You can also manually clear the page cache under Tools / Delete Browsing History / Delete Temporary files.

Answer 3

it goes to the hour glass when there is a process opening or something is running. hit control + alt + delete and see what is running you can end processes that are not in use at that moment (example limewire is on but not in use end that process) do not end anything you do not know what it is

Answer 4

The hourglass is to tell you that the computer is in a "busy" state.
What computer do you have?

If your computer is very old it may not be keeping up.