hour glass blinking

[stretch]

Can anyone tell me why, when I open wimx the hour glass keeps blinking next to my pointing arrow
 it will not stop and when i close mx it stops im running xp home with 3.5beta 4 with 1.9 patch Thank You

[Me Here]

Hi Stretch,

This as you say is not normal for your system to be 'Thinking' the entire time WinMX is running.  So if this is happening more then a few maybe 5 at the very most minutes after you start WinMX up, I would suggest you do some scans on the machine.

https://www.winmxworld.com/tutorials/anti_virus_info.html

Have a look at this page, my first suggestion is to run the Adaware and the Spybot Search & Destroy, both listed with links for download on that page.

Then I would run my Antivirus that I had installed on the pc.

Just to be safe XP has a wonderful built in System File Scan that can check for damaged system files, the instructions are also on that page.

Its also not a bad idea to run one of the Online Free Virus scans since some things can hide from you installed antivirus programs.

Last but not least I think the instructions for checking your Task Manager while WinMX is running is a great idea to make sure nothing else is running along with it, that shouldnt be.

Let me know if you have any questions about this, I realize its alot of info,.