On my thinkpad laptop the mouse arrow keeps becoming a scroll bar instead of an arrow. I have reinstalled Windows afresh and it is still happening. I did see a post that showed I should untick the mouse option 'hide mouse arrow while typing' which sort of worked but I am still seeing the issue a lot and it sometimes stops the mouse arrow working completely. Is this a driver issue? Can I disable thew driver somehow? Do I need a new mousepad?

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OK so in the end it was an easy fix, just not quite the one I had tried - just do this:

Use the start menu search for mouse and find change the mouse pointer display or speed

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When you are at this page tab:
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untick Enable Trackpad

And the problems should be gone but the mouse and trackpad still work fine..?

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