Nice detective work Joe, and thanks for posting back the resolution.

"Joe Dunfee" <JoeDunfee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

> Thank you Elmo and Rock for your replies, I think I have the problem
> vanquished for now.
>
> -Turning down hardware acceleration had no effect.
>
> -My computer (an Averatec Tablet/Laptop) has shared memory for the video.
> I
> increased it from 32 to 64 meg, but that had no effect.
>
> -I switched to an older Logitec optical mouse, and restored my system to a
> time before all this started. But, again, no change.
>
> -Finally, I started shut down some of the tasks running in the background
> (most notabably the keyboardsurrogate.exe program) and freed up about 50k
> of
> memory.
>
> The addtional free main memory did the trick. I've ordered some
> addtiional
> RAM for my computer for a more permanent solution.


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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]