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Why is my cursor constantly blinking between the arrow and the busy "hourglass" / "circle"?

I just did a fresh install of an OEM Windows Vista Premium 64-bit after a vigorous wiping of my HDD with DBAN. The first thing I notice after Windows installed ... my cursor is blinking between busy and not busy -constantly-. This wasn't happening before the wipe and there's hardly anything on the system (Steam games and a paid up / updated version of McAfee, pretty much.) Any recommendations on troubleshooting this?
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Was it doing that before you installed Mcafee? If you are not sure, try uninstalling it.
One way to troubleshoot it would be to open the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) select the Processes tab then click twice on CPU in the CPU column. Watch to see if any program keeps rising to the top of the list.
Please post back with the result.
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I did as you suggested (awesome utility, btw!) and found out that it was just a windows process being quirky. I noticed that I had updates that needed a restart, so after restarting, it works just fine now.

Thanks!