Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
Ah, the operant conditioning of software.<p>To this day, when waiting for some long or compute-intensive operation, I tend to instinctively move the mouse around. I guess this may be why.<p>Ironically, even though I grew up on Windows, I don&#x27;t remember any actual case of &quot;moving the mouse speeds thing up&quot; on this OS - I only remember the infamous Linux cases (mouse move regenerates entropy, unblocking processes that got stuck when generating a random number call). But there must have been something, and I must have experienced it early enough in my childhood.