Laptop Mouse Lag Problem: What's The Cause?

Truegho

My laptop's built-in mouse pointer has suddenly developed a most annoying problem, the cause of which I just cannot fathom: the cursor suddenly freezes for about thirty seconds and displays a small round circle with a line going through its interior.

What do you think has caused this? Is it spyware, a device driver problem, or what?

Please help, as I hate it when my cursor suddenly freezes on a web page and I have to wait for nearly a minute before I can movie it again.

Thanks.

12bdebt3

Truegho wrote: »

My laptop's built-in mouse pointer has suddenly developed a most annoying problem, the cause of which I just cannot fathom: the cursor suddenly freezes for about thirty seconds and displays a small round circle with a line going through its interior.

What do you think has caused this? Is it spyware, a device driver problem, or what?

Please help, as I hate it when my cursor suddenly freezes on a web page and I have to wait for nearly a minute before I can movie it again.

Thanks.

Do you play games on your computer? I think this is a gamer problem.

I don't know if there is a permenant fix to this other than re-installing Windows, which I wouldn't advise because it will probably happen again; but press 'start' > go in 'control panel' > then 'hardware' > then 'mouse' > then 'pointer options' and set 'pointer trails' to yes. This might help but I don't think it will fully prevent it from happening again.

paddyrg

Can you post a picture of what the cursor looks like when frozen, it sounds unfamiliar so may help diagnosis.

That said, for most conditions,a good reinstall is the best treatment!

Truegho

Thanks. Have tried switching the Display Pointer Trails on, and hope that this will rectify the problem.

arrontdep wrote: »

Do you play games on your computer? I think this is a gamer problem.

I don't know if there is a permenant fix to this other than re-installing Windows, which I wouldn't advise because it will probably happen again; but press 'start' > go in 'control panel' > then 'hardware' > then 'mouse' > then 'pointer options' and set 'pointer trails' to yes. This might help but I don't think it will fully prevent it from happening again.

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