Mouse pointer freezes on screen - Lenovo Yoga 500

I have a laptop myself although not a Lenovo, but used to experience that problem myself frequently. I final resolved it by buying a USB mouse and using that. It's much easier to work with as well especially for scrolling since you can use the mouse wheel.

To disable the touchpad on your machine hit Fn+F6. See this article for more info on that subject: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/yoga-series/yoga-500-14ibd/documents/HT075464?tabName=Solutions

Possible the problem is with a bad M$ automatic update that came out on August 12.  I know the date because I used my computer that day before and after a bunch of automatic updates installed themselves.  One of them toasted the mouse on my Yoga 2 and I still haven't figured out how to get it back in action.  Unfortunately, even if you take out the bad driver, it will come back in its same defective state.  (I know; I tried that several times, along with uninstalling several of the August 12 updates to see if taking any of them out would solve the mouse problem.) 

Using a USB mouse pretty much eliminates one of the advantages of Windows 8, which is the expanded utility of the touchpad.  It's the workaround I'm using, but it sucks.

Do you have the latest driver installed? It was released April 30: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/yoga-series/yoga-500-14ibd/downloads/DS102535

Thank  you, but I tried that last night after finding that suggestion.  It didn't find any problems.

Getting there, however, did alert me to yet another thing that the bad update toasted -- the start button.  Right clicking on it using the external mouse did nothing.  Pressing the button on the keyboard did nothing.  I was, however, able to right click on it by holding my finger on the touchscreen.

So, at this point, the count is:

* Semi-dead start button; haven't tried yet to get to the tiles that I would have to get to by left clicking on it, but can't use the 2 easiest methods to left or right click it

* Can't use the touchpad mouse

* Can't move from one window to another without minimizing or, in some cases, closing out entirely from the window I'm in.

* Can't enter or edit appointments in Outlook without going through way too many steps (double click on the appointment or appointment-to-be; click on "calendar tools"; click on the "open file" icon; then enter the changes or appointment in the dialogue box that comes up).

* Permanently set the audio to 100%; trying to reduce it reverses itself in seconds

* Placed an audio volume meter on top of everything else on the desktop.  Solved that, and the loud audio, by disabling the speaker entirely, since I rarely listen to audio on this computer

* Miscellaneous other settings changed; I'm still finding them.

Gee, with this quality of update, I wonder why I am NOT AT ALL EAGER to try Windows 10?  Maybe a Mac instead.

You can try doing the following just in case it's a corrupt system file which is causing the problem..

1. Right click the Start button and go to Command Prompt (Admin).
2. Then type, or copy/paste: sfc /scannow and hit Enter.

System File Checker will check the integrity of Windows system files and try to fix any corruption found.

If you see a message that Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. copy/paste the following command into the same command prompt and hit Enter: DISM.exe/Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth