Lee247

If I leave the laptop for a short space of time, the mouse arrow disappears from my screen.
If I am very careful, I can still manage to highlight what I need to do, but closing down is a right pain in the ***.
Any reason why this is happening. Is it the mouse or the laptop???
Strangest thing I have ever seen

MMT WRX

I had a similar problem with my laptop recently.
Its W7 64 running IE8. If I right clicked and opened in a new tab the cursor disappeared. It was still there, just not visible, if I buggered about with the mouse pad I could work out where the cursor was and close IE and restart it.
Funnily enough it just sorted it self out and is OK now.

Lee247

It's really weird
And, yes, if I manage to switch off and back on the cursor is there again.
I've uploaded one of the moving cursors. Looks like it has a wiggly worm on the end of the arrowhead. Seems to be working, for now

MMT WRX

I did a Google and it seems that turning on pointer trials can resolve the problem.

Seems like thats what you've already done

to check:

Start > control panel > mouse > pointer option > switch on pointer trails.
once selected you can set how long the trails are on a slider.

Lee247

Thanks for the help, MMT

Right,
Options as follows

Select pointer speed, this is set in the middle
Enhance pointer precision is ticked
Snap To:
Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box, this is not ticked.
Visibility:
Display pointer trails, this is not ticked and set on long
Hide pointer while typing, this is ticked
Show location of pointer when I press CTRL key, this is not ticked.

The wiggly worm seems to be working. Do I need to change any of the above.
Sorry about this

Lee247

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MMT WRX

Thats how mine is but just as a trial to see if it helps resolve the problem:

I would change pointer trails to ticked and adjust the slide to suit your own personal preference (try both long and short).
You could also tick - Show location of pointer when I press CTRL key. Then if the pointer disappears again press the CTRL key it will highlight where it is. Give it a go when you've changed it, you can easily change it back.

Lee247

Thanks for that, MMT.

Have done what you said. Will see how I get on.
I've just been out for half and hour and when I got back the mouse cursor had gone. Had a right job shutting down the lappy.
And as you say, it comes back when fired up again. Stupid thing that it is

MMT WRX

OK, hope it solves it, keep us posted