For the past month or so I have had a sporadic problem with my mouse pointer changing color to orange with a yellow border. It has happened on about 4 or 5 occasions and at least 3 of them were when I booted up on a Tuesday morning. The reason I mention that is because I did have some scheduled maintenance that is supposed to run at 1AM on Tuesday's but I don't always leave my computer on. I thought maybe that had something to do with it.

When the cursor is orange, if I reboot the computer it goes back to normal but even though that seems to solve the problem temporarily I would like to know what is causing it.

My OS is Windows 98 SE and I have a Dell Dimension L550r.

The times that it has happened, the computer was fine the night before when I shut down but at reboot the mouse pointer is orange.

I have spoken to a few computer people and no one has ever heard of this problem.

I run AdAware, Spybot S&D and Ace Utilities regularly. I use AVG as my antivirus.

One more thing....which may or may not be important. My husband uses AOL on this computer.