Mouse Cursor Flickering on Windows 10

Anonymous
2019-08-02T14:10:38+00:00

This is a really annoying problem. 

Two things seem to be happening. First is the mouse cursor is flickering. It's as if it's having an anxiety attack. The flicker can also interfere when trying to click on icons, although most of the clicking feature seem to work okay most of the time.

The second thing I noticed is that down at the bottom of the screen is a big circle that has an arrow in it. This arrow flickers in rhythm with the cursor. 

I have tried every suggestion I can find on the internet, including those from this forum. I've deleted device drivers for both the mouse and video card and the intel driver, changed screen resolution, tried changing mouse settings, tried changing the settings of my video drivers,  I tried changing the performance settings, I changed the boot up settings in my Bios. I tried starting up without my usual start up programs. Nothing stopped the flickering.

I use a USB mouse, so I tried different USB ports. I also tried a wireless mouse. The flicker did not stop in either case. I think it's a problem with the Windows update. I had this problem some months back, but it stopped. Then I updated a few days ago and the mouse flickering started up again.

I did notice that while in my Bios the cursor did not flicker. While in Windows 10, as I am now the mouse cursor does flicker.

Help.

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Anonymous
2019-08-11T14:34:07+00:00

Solved! (I think...)

I spent hours yesterday trying to find the solution to this problem, trying stuff at random and search the internet for ideas. Nothing worked, but I was reading about one person who said his touch pad was causing his flickering problem. I don't have a touch pad, but I do have a touch monitor. In fact I have two monitors, one touch and one is not, which may or may not having anything to do with it.

Anyway, the touch screen monitor was the problem. The first way to solve this, in my situation, was to go to Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > HID-compliant touch screen, right click and disable the device. This worked immediately.

However, as I realized later, the far easier solution is to reach around to the back of the monitor and unplug the usb cord that connects the monitor's touch screen functionalities to the computer. This too caused the flickering mouse cursor to stop. 

Very frustrating problem if you don't know the solution. But when you do it is easy. Hope this helps someone.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-04T06:16:15+00:00

    I did face same issue that there was a small circle at the right top of the screen and it flickers based on mouse movement and click. Restart or unplugging mouse and connecting back did not help. Tried to use mouse pad on laptop but still no luck.

    Finally removed the power cable from laptop (actually i was using a dock and was using a second monitor as well). So unplugged dock cable from laptop and then shutdown (hard stop using power button) and start back. Flickering is gone.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-05T20:50:40+00:00

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    Are the bullet and the dash necessary before the prompts?  If so, where is the bullet located on the keyboard?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-31T13:08:22+00:00

    Great that worked. I have a touch screen on my laptop (ThinkPad Yoga). I disabled the touch screen and the flickering was off. Tried to enable again and the flickering was back. So, I'll keep it disabled for the time being but I guess we need to find a permanent solution which enables us to use our touchscreens again.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-31T21:29:41+00:00

    I have experienced similar characteristics with my mouse pointer. So far my fix has been to uninstall my HID-mouse through device manager, reboot, then it automatically reinstalls but the flickering is gone. Seems to work until some application launches a thread causing the flicker to return. I just tried disabling the touch screen and will see how that works.

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