This has to be one of the more annoying problems I've come across. Lately, I've noticed that while moving the mouse or typing on the keyboard, there seems to be a slight delay (of not more than a half-second). For example, if I'm moving the mouse down, while the cursor is moving, then sometimes, the cursor stops moving for half a second, and keeps moving in the direction I was moving the mouse. On the keyboard, this happens while I am typing; I'll be typing away, and occasionally there's a slight pause in my keystrokes to what comes up on the screen. I may have physically typed in what I wanted to, but there's sometimes a millisecond delay for the characters to show up on the screen.

I haven't really noticed this affecting anything else, although if my WinXP startup times are longer than normal, then this occurs (and they have been consistently longer than normal as of late).

What's up? Is there a program that's trying to access something or another and is not working properly or what?

P.S. I have ZoneAlarm, PeerGuardian, Symantic AV, Linksys WPC54G utility, and the ALPS Touchpoint utility load up on startup.