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Coding Snacks / Re: Display program and / or command that triggred mouse Wait cursor?
« on: November 15, 2017, 10:53 AM »
Thank you @IainB, for the pointers.  :) I'm thinking it's not a mouse issue at the root cause for some reason, since when it is changing to the Wait cursor I'm unable to click anything (often-times even with a Wait cursor, Windows will still let me click something). Just a hunch, though I could be wrong.

@SkyWire, I was thinking the same about it possibly not being possible, but thought I'd ask anyway in case anyone else knew something that I don't. Maybe a Super-Mega-Grand-Poobah-Guru would've known some super sneaky and clever way to do this, lol.

I did have this problem for a while now; but, I recently upgraded my motherboard, ram and cpu, and it seems to be even more so than when it was happening on my last mobo/ram/cpu. I have just been watching my processes with taskmanager, and noticed a dllhost.exe constantly opening and closing, which made me raise an eyebrow. I looked at it's command-line and it's to C:\Windows\system32\DllHost.exe /Processid:{AB8902B4-09CA-4BB6-B78D-A8F59079A8D5}.

Looking in the registry at that CLSID it points to thumbcache.dll. I'm wondering if this could be the root cause?

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Coding Snacks / Display program and / or command that triggred mouse Wait cursor?
« on: November 13, 2017, 12:10 PM »
I'm having a strange issue where my mouse cursor keeps showing the Wait/Working cursor, and while it does, I'm unable to click to perform whatever action. Especially in Explorer. It'll show the Wait cursor for a second then the normal cursor, then wait cursor, over and over with varying timespans when the Wait cursor shows. This is on a very fast system, so I'm thinking it's not due to something like maxed out CPU, etc.

I watch the RAM, and CPU while it's happening and there's plenty of RAM, and The CPU is nowhere near maxed. I'm wondering if there's some way to log/display EXACTLY which program just triggered the wait cursor. For example, if I write a VB program (let's call it "MyApp.exe") I can manually set the cursor to the Wait cursor like this: Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor, in which case, I'd like to see "MyApp.exe" show up "live" as it happens, in maybe a floating window(?) or even just a .txt log.

Then I could narrow down or eliminate this tricky, and maddening problem easily. :(

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