disappearing pointer with windows 8 touch screen laptop

Anonymous
2012-12-16T17:25:30+00:00

I just got an ACER v5-571 touch screen laptop.  I have no mouse and use mouse pad to move the pointer.  It worked great until today.  The pointer is no longer visible.  I set to use the ctl key to see where the pointer is.  It shows me where the pointer is located by a big circle.  I tried to change some mouse settings.  The pointer is still not visible.  Any suggestion?

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Anonymous
2013-01-02T18:34:00+00:00

I solved the mystery of disappearing pointer.  Suddenly remembered a few days before the disappearing of pointers, I was planning to show a movie via the hmdi port.  In the dark I played with some of the function keys.  Apparently I pressed the "hide the pointer" key (fn F7), next to the "two screens" key (fn + F6).   After press "fn" + F7 again.  The pointer returned.  No wonder all other suggestions failed to work.  I don't know if this info will help you, just to share.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-08T16:59:20+00:00

    I have the same problem, but Fn F7 does nothing. I have restarted mulitiple times without success. Any additional help would be greatly appreciated.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-12-29T00:20:48+00:00

    I am having this same issue on a two day old Asus Q200 touch.   I have yet to recover the mouse.

    A formal report to Microsoft support is the next move, as  no answers have come from web searches.  I suggest you do the same,  all the best.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-17T03:30:36+00:00

    I tried to change some mouse settings.

    Which ones?   FWIW in my Mouse settings I see a Pointers tab.   In there I can change the "Scheme".   If you have the same feature, try changing to a different scheme?

    BTW doing a  Win-W  for pointer  finds an item labeled "Change how the mouse pointer looks" but opening that only brings up the right dialog, not in the Pointers tab.   YMMV.

    HTH

    Robert Aldwinckle

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-08T22:06:42+00:00

    I solved the mystery of disappearing pointer.  Suddenly remembered a few days before the disappearing of pointers, I was planning to show a movie via the hmdi port.  In the dark I played with some of the function keys.  Apparently I pressed the "hide the pointer" key (fn F7), next to the "two screens" key (fn + F6).   After press "fn" + F7 again.  The pointer returned.  No wonder all other suggestions failed to work.  I don't know if this info will help you, just to share.

     

     

    Thanks so much!  FN+ F7 did it.

    I don't know if this is relevant but I noticed it has gone missing after watching a movie and shutting the lid. But again, thank you for sharing this :)

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