Vista Upgrade - Takes 30 Seconds to 5 minutes after mouse "click"

[Guest]

My system was auto upgraded on shutdown last night. This morning, the
system booted fine. However, clicking on anything with the mouse results in
a delay of 30 seconds to 5 minutes between the click and when the system
responds to the click. You get the "system busy" mouse revolving circle icon.

I've tried 3 different mice - built in (notebook PC), USB and wireless.
They all works properly. You just experience very long delays for each
action, to the point the PC is almost unusable. I've wasted 3 hours to
backup recent files in case I have to wipe everything on the system and do a
total OS/App reinstall. My guess everytime I click the mouse, there is
somethnig going on in the system, with a system time out function finally
forcing action.

Any ideas on what the heck happened and the best way to fix it?

Regards,

 

[Kue2]

What updates were applied by windows update?

 

[Guest]

Hi pnkearns,

Do you have automatic updates set to download and install optional updates
as well as those from Microsoft? Since you have a problem with your mouse,
you should be looking for an update that refers to that device. Use system
restore to revert your system back to before you started having problems.
Change your update options so that you can choose when to install them. Allow
the updates to install but don't let them install. Instead, install them one
at a time, rebooting your machine between each update. Check for mouse
problems after each installation. When you start experiencing problems again,
uninstall the last update that you installed and carry on installing the rest
of the updates as described above. To prevent this problem in future, change
your update options so that it only notifies you of optional updates but does
not install them. All other updates should be allowed to download and install
as usual. If, however, the update was not an optional one you will need to
set this update as 'hidden' to prevent it from being reapplied. As a general
rule, you should only download updates for hardware devices from Microsoft if
they are manufactured by Microsoft. All other hardware updates should be
obtained directly via the manufacturers website. Note that it is possible
that your problem might be caused by the update requiring an upgrade to your
BIOS. If this is the case then you can either set the offending update as
'hidden' (recommended) or upgrade your BIOS (not recommended - DO THIS AT
YOUR OWN RISK). If you want, you could also use the information in the post
'Problematic Updates in Windows Vista', also in this newsgroup, to see if you
can successfully install the update that way.
Please reply with the following information: make (manufacturer) of PC,
version of Vista and the details of the suspect update(s) so that others who
have the same setup as you may be helped.
Dwarf