I've got a problem with my cursor disappearing when I switch from one Windows account to another. The older account got set up this past Christmas when I got the computer and the newer one got set up a couple of weeks ago. I had no problem with either account until today: now, suddenly, I'm finding that when I switch to the newer account, the cursor just flat-out disappears and doesn't come back for love or money. This leaves me unable to do very much of anything except switch back to the older account, where my cursor usually reappears. But as soon as I go back to the newer account, I've lost the cursor and can't make it come back.
For months now, I've been frustrated by the apparent oversensivity of the gesture interpretation on the touchpad. I innocently move a finger along the touchpad to get it from A to B and find that it gets interpreted as a wish to scroll or bring up a context menu or whatever. So yesterday, I disabled all but the single-finger gestures. The problem seems to have begun right after that. After various reboots and other experiments to get my cursor back on the newer account, I finally decided to re-enable the gestures as they had been on the theory that perhaps that was causing my cursor problems. But it didn't really help so maybe that was NOT the problem after all.
Can anyone suggest a way to keep my cursor from disappearing in the second Windows account? And if you know how to keep the touchpad from reacting to every minute movement and interpreting it is an attempted-gesture when it is just me moving my hand, I'd love to hear about that too.
I'm not sure if I have a driver issue or something of that kind.
The laptop is an ASUS K55N, which was new at Christmas 2012. It was purchased from Best Buy.
For months now, I've been frustrated by the apparent oversensivity of the gesture interpretation on the touchpad. I innocently move a finger along the touchpad to get it from A to B and find that it gets interpreted as a wish to scroll or bring up a context menu or whatever. So yesterday, I disabled all but the single-finger gestures. The problem seems to have begun right after that. After various reboots and other experiments to get my cursor back on the newer account, I finally decided to re-enable the gestures as they had been on the theory that perhaps that was causing my cursor problems. But it didn't really help so maybe that was NOT the problem after all.
Can anyone suggest a way to keep my cursor from disappearing in the second Windows account? And if you know how to keep the touchpad from reacting to every minute movement and interpreting it is an attempted-gesture when it is just me moving my hand, I'd love to hear about that too.
I'm not sure if I have a driver issue or something of that kind.
The laptop is an ASUS K55N, which was new at Christmas 2012. It was purchased from Best Buy.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS K55N
- CPU
- AMD A8-4500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.90 GHz
- Motherboard
- not sure
- Memory
- 8.00 GB installed, 7.46 GB usuable
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radeon
- Sound Card
- not sure
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Built-in laptop screen
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x768
- Hard Drives
- one 750 GB
- PSU
- Not sure
- Case
- Not sure
- Cooling
- Not sure
- Keyboard
- Built in to laptop
- Mouse
- None; I use the touchpad
- Internet Speed
- 6 Mbps down, 0.25 Mbps up
- Browser
- current versions of Firefox, Chrome and IE
- Antivirus
- Avast Free
- Other Info
- I *think* many of the questions to which I've answered "not sure" are irrelevant because it is a laptop but if you need to know specifically what model of cooling fans or keyboard or whatever where built in to the laptop, I can try to find that out if you tell me where to look. I don't see this information in the Windows/System display but maybe it is elsewhere. I'm not sure what a "PSU" is: Powe