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
    2015-04-30T00:17:43+00:00

    Thank you for your post!! I have an ASUS and have not been able to get my cursor back no matter what I did! The FN plus F7 solved it instantly!! Thank you so much!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-30T00:19:09+00:00

    I've been having this problem. The pointer either freezes or disappears. I have set the cntl key to find it, which works fine. What I have been doing (and it works okay) is to go to the Windows 8 screen (with all the tiles) and "tab" to the bottom arrow that opens the app list. Then i use arrow keys to go to Control Panel/Devices/Mouse and I find that the mousepad has been reset to wired regular mouse. I use the arrow keys to change the setting, tab to the "okay" button and restart (best luck when I shut down and then restart. But it still keeps going back and freezing. I haven't found the cause (web page or whatever). I'd still like a patch that fixes the glitch though. Any chance it's related to adware or anything like that?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-12T01:21:19+00:00

    Same, nothing happens when I click fn and 7.  I have an acer touchscreen.  When I press the control button, a circle appears over the area where the mouse must be, but still no cursor. Any suggestions?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-05-12T03:19:09+00:00

                Any suggestions?

    Get a real mouse.  If you move the pointer it will then show.  If you have a real numeric keypad (or even a real keyboard that can generate real numeric keypad scan codes) you could try using Mousekeys to simulate using a real mouse.  E.g. then all you might require would be tapping on any of the direction keys to make the pointer show.  I don't think it will show though if you just tap one of its buttons.  You have to simulate movement of the pointer by a real mouse.

    FYI

    Robert Aldwinckle

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