Why do I get the beachball on my Mac?
The spinning wait cursor or spinning disc pointer — where your mouse pointer becomes the rotating color wheel or “spinning beach ball” seen above — generally indicates that your Mac® is engaged in a processor-intensive activity.
How do I fix the constant spinning cursor in Windows?
Here’s a solution I’ve found to at least stop the blue circle:
- Start with the Microsoft suggestion of going to the mouse properties.
- Click on the “Pointers” tab.
- Select the “Working In Background” pointer and click on “Browse”
- Select the first mouse arrow option (the one that looks like a normal mouse arrow)
What does it mean when your mouse pointer is spinning?
The spinning wait cursor or spinning disc pointer — where your mouse pointer becomes the rotating color wheel or “spinning beach ball” seen above — generally indicates that your Mac® is engaged in a processor-intensive activity.
Is there a way to stop the spinning cursor?
Sure enough, the mouse pointer would switch to the “busy” spinning circle every 30 seconds or so, then stop, then start up again. And yes, I would be annoyed too if this was happening to me! Below I’ll explain how I went about resolving the issue. The first thing I did was right click on the task bar and selected “Task Manager”.
When does the spinning wait cursor appear on Mac?
According to Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, “the spinning wait cursor is displayed automatically by the window server when an application cannot handle all of the events it receives. If an application does not respond for about 2 to 4 seconds, the spinning wait cursor appears.”
Is the sbbod called the spinning disc pointer?
While the Apple Style Guide (PDF) specifies that the SBBOD is officially named the spinning wait cursor, most AppleCare Knowledge Base articles about the SBBOD call it the spinning disc pointer.