Mouse Pointer is getting messed up

The mouse no matter who makes it will make no difference.

Oddly, your the 1st person I have seen in some close to 70 forums, that is having this problem at all with an Nvidia card. Or at least the 1st person I have noticed with it.

I spent a few moments (read as 2 hours+) looking around just for your issue, and issues similar to yours. However the best I can say is... this might in your case be a heat related issue causing your video card to present improper images. As its a laptop there is likely no real way to fix that issue if I am right. Interestingly enough though unless your say using power point as your office application, its not really a graphically intensive application... so your video card should not be heating up anymore then simply turning it on would.

I would need the cards info for futher study on this matter, (IE model, ram, other specs if possible.) and perhaps I can point to a "This is why it does that" answer for you, and with that answer I or someone else will likely be able to come up with either a fix (IE use mouse or video driver dated XX/XX/XXXX) or a reccomendation**(IE Replace video card ASAP!!!!).**

For now see if teh pointer trails trick works... if so at least we can say honestly its a video card error and not related to something else inside the computer. If it does not work, that will point us towards seeking other answers.

BTW yeah I feel your pain about the pointer trails, I am a gamer and a computer technician, both obviously use alot of higher end grahpics and I have this problem on almost every machine I own except for a 7 year old XP machine. I do not truely eye follow the mouse, but kinda track it using peripheral vision and sadly even the lowest pointer trail tends to make me miss click often.

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I too have this issue.

However, just to throw a spanner in the works(!), I have Nvidia graphics,not ATI, and I am still getting this auto scrollbar appearing at random intervals.  Mine is not getting so bad though that it causes the computer to crash.

My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6410 running Windows 7 Pro, 32 bit.  I'm using a standard Dell wired mouse, and have tried swapping the mouse, but that made no difference.  Have also checked and I have the most up-to-date drivers already.

As it is a work computer, I am only using 1 screen, and don't do any gaming on it.  The issue doesn't happen all the time, but occurs in Office programs and also in IE while browsing.

The only solution I've found is to hit a key on the keyboard - no idea why that works, but it does seem to do the trick!  I have just turn the pointer trails on to see if that makes a difference, but I would prefer a permanent solution, as even with them set as short as possible, they do drive me a little mad!

Someone please help!!

The error appears to have to do with ATI video drivers, when used for a prolonged period of time with Direct X in a graphically intensive environment. IE Playing a game for several hours tends to make this happen if you have an ATI card.

A fix was posted above, to switch your mouse to use pointer trails. Sadly the method only works if you leave pointer trails on.

1. Click Start.
2. Type Mouse into the Search bar, then select Mouse when it appears, or hit enter.
3. Select the tab labeled as "Pointer Options"
4. Make sure the box labeled as "Show Pointer Trails" is checked.
5. Set the slider for "Pointer Trails" to "Short"
6. Click "Apply" and then "OK"

The above should resolve the issue both in game and out of game.

*EDIT* As always make sure your drivers are upto date. At some point ATI is likely to fix this issue permanently, as they already know about this issue.

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