Word 2007 on Vista Ultimate x86 - mouse pointer flicking to Busy continously

Hi,

This is really bugging me. I have even resorted to reformatting and
reinstalling everything!

On Word 07, the mouse pointer is continously switching between busy and
regular arrow. It's making everything I do on Word extremely slow! It also
seems to affect Excel 07 too, although the pointer doesn't change - the
program just seems to stutter along. It's especially noticable when
scrolling up and/or across a spreadsheet.

I have searched on Google, and one guy did seem to solve the problem, but
failed to share his solution!

Any ideas?


Neil

Hi Neil,

I had exactly the same problem recently and discovered the cause purely by
accident. I am using a wireless mouse and found that if my Bluetooth phone
was turned on and in the same room then the problem occurred. Whenever I
turned off the Bluetooth phone the problem disappeared.

I hope that your problem can be so easily solved. If not, then I am afraid
I cannot suggest anything else.


"Neil Myers" <NMyers@work.com> wrote in message
news:F7110598-219A-4F2A-93E4-711425C6FE95@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> This is really bugging me. I have even resorted to reformatting and
> reinstalling everything!
>
> On Word 07, the mouse pointer is continously switching between busy and
> regular arrow. It's making everything I do on Word extremely slow! It also
> seems to affect Excel 07 too, although the pointer doesn't change - the
> program just seems to stutter along. It's especially noticable when
> scrolling up and/or across a spreadsheet.
>
> I have searched on Google, and one guy did seem to solve the problem, but
> failed to share his solution!
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Neil

Just to bring the issue up to date, I traced the problem down to a printer
driver - updated to a newer Vista driver (although, according to the
manufacturer - Toshiba, the previous one was Vista compliant).

The problem has since gone away.


Neil

"Stan Kay" <stan.kay@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:14F5912C-CB80-4D7E-9737-5D7185F7F3B5@microsoft.com...
> Hi Neil,
>
> I had exactly the same problem recently and discovered the cause purely by
> accident. I am using a wireless mouse and found that if my Bluetooth
> phone was turned on and in the same room then the problem occurred.
> Whenever I turned off the Bluetooth phone the problem disappeared.
>
> I hope that your problem can be so easily solved. If not, then I am
> afraid I cannot suggest anything else.
>
>
> "Neil Myers" <NMyers@work.com> wrote in message
> news:F7110598-219A-4F2A-93E4-711425C6FE95@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is really bugging me. I have even resorted to reformatting and
>> reinstalling everything!
>>
>> On Word 07, the mouse pointer is continously switching between busy and
>> regular arrow. It's making everything I do on Word extremely slow! It
>> also seems to affect Excel 07 too, although the pointer doesn't change -
>> the program just seems to stutter along. It's especially noticable when
>> scrolling up and/or across a spreadsheet.
>>
>> I have searched on Google, and one guy did seem to solve the problem, but
>> failed to share his solution!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Neil
>