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Got a fairly new laptop, started noticing that the mouse sometimes jumps around, or when stuff is loading, the pointer changes to a pixelated/low res pointer and circle. Just been trying to work out whats going on, and noticed that when a webpage is loading, the mouse pointer disappears under, or skips across a portion of the screen at the top when moving vertically.
This is using a new Lenovo Ideapad with the built in trackpad. Don't have a mouse to hand but I'm sure it was the same behaviour last time I checked.
Seems to be limited to Google Chrome browser...just tried Internet Explorer and no issues. Any ideas?!
Poltergeist - walk towards the light
Does it have a touch screen?
My Lenovo all in one does this some times ..... So I turned off the touch . Solved
I have this problem too. Lenovo also, so you've probably not been hacked.
Only happens occasionally. I've learned to live with it. Whenever it happens I always imagine it's some young Nigerian boy shouting to his mentor at scam-college "yes! I nearly had him!"
Run the Lenovo Update utility, would be my first attack.
Ratty's suggestion is interesting also.
Screenshot of this "pointer and circle" might help.
Thanks guys. As it seems to be common I'll do some Googling. I did wonder if my minor beer gut was affecting the trackpad but I've held it in and there is no improvement 😆
Edit: no touch. Its a 710s (outgoing model not the super new one)
I've always found that if you take the ball out, then get your finger in the hole and scrape the crud off the rollers the pointer behaves much better.
Advice for life, that.
Just don't take the ball out anywhere near the fridge!
Ah the memories of all the mice balls being stolen at school, and the teachers endlessly trying to thwart the students by glueing/screwing/melting the covers onto the back of the mice!
Well I lost 8kg and reduced beer gut has not improved matters...in fact it got a lot worse.
Managed to fix it by uninstalling (in the driver settings) the HID-Compliant Mouse driver. For those not used to meddling, it will automatically re-install once you've restarted the computer. I might have reinstalled Synaptics Pointing Device...can't remember 🙂
All the troubleshooting was talking about re-installing Lenovo Power Management but I don't have that on the PC.