Sometimes a very strange and out of the commonplace question will occur on a computer. The question can be frustrating because nobody seems to know what could have gone wrong. Ask 15 dissimilar geeks what they think the question is and you'll get 30 dissimilar answers. When geeks give more than one answer, it means they don't know.
Actually, with some problems it is impossible to know what is wrong just by hearing the question described. Maybe if you were able to give a very detailed narrative it would help, but that is not all the time possible. Such is the case with a disappearing cursor. I've seen it happen and I've see dissimilar reasons why. In this article, I will tell you what I've seen cause this question and hopefully, this will help you get your cursor back.
Optical Mouse
Of course, you all the time start troubleshooting any question by rebooting. With no mouse you'll have to press "Ctrl-Esc" and click the arrows up and down and sideways until you get to "restart" on Vista or "shut off computer-restart" on Xp. If rebooting doesn't work for you, you'll need to read on.
Optical Mouse
When an optical mouse goes bad, you will be using it and suddenly, the cursor will just drop all the way down to the lowest of the page. You know what an optical mouse is. It is a mouse without a ball. I hope this is your problem. This question is easy to fix. Just put on a new mouse.
Elusive Trojan
Some virus cleaners aren't capable of getting rid of all types of Trojans. A Trojan is versatile malware script. It has elements of both a virus and spyware. When tracking a question where a cursor just plain disappears, I would run a top flight spyware cleaner. You can get a free scan. So you can see if a Trojan is present. If so, I would fancy this is why the cursor has disappeared.
This problem, I guess could be an additional one type of spyware, but the few Pc's I've seen with this type of question were caused by a Trojan assault on the dll layer of the execution system. Actually, you don't have to know anything about dll's or layers, just run the spyware scanner. If the computer is as a matter of fact acting up, you may have to go into safe mode with network reserve to do so.
Of course, after the Trojan is removed, you will have to run a registry cleaner. In fact, if you run a registry cleaner first, you may get rid of the problem, but it will come back. It is the Trojan's corrupting of the registry that makes the mouse disappear. So, however many times you clean the registry, if the Trojan is still running around in the computer, it will come back and corrupt the registry again and there goes the cursor!
New Video Card?
This is a rare one, but I did run over it once. A new video card, though it was Windows Xp compatible, was installed in a 2.6Ghz Pc with Widows Xp home. The question was, Windows did one of its self-operating updates after the develop of the video card and its driver. After the card was installed, a driver-operating principles mismatch occurred. The video card maker had an upgrade ready and the upgraded driver fixed the disappearing cursor problem.
Just because I haven't as a matter of fact seen it yet, doesn't mean some other kind of driver mismatch couldn't cause such a problem. Probably, it is good idea to have a driver scanner ready to forestall such a thing.
In the world of computers, you never know what kind of question you might run into. Other than having an unusual mouse problem, you should keep viruses and spyware out of your computer; keep the registry clean and the drivers up to date. By doing these things you greatly growth your chances you will never run into a tough, unusual problem. It is fortunate we now have software that will take care of all this.
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