Mouse Cursor Keeps Disappearing? hard to tell what I am doing

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My name is Milagros, Independent Advisor

If your mouse pointer or cursor disappears or has gone misisng on your Windows 10 PC then if you earlier enabled the Show location of pointer when I press Ctrl key option, then you may press the CTRL key to make te pointer appear. ... Open Control Panel > Mouse > Pointer Options

Solution 1. Use Windows Function Keys to Get the Disappearing Cursor Back in Windows 10

The installation of Windows 10 may disable the function of your mouse cursor, causing the mouse pointer missing on Windows 10. If that’s the case, it could be possibly resolved by pressing the Windows function keys on your keyboard.

Depending on your keyboard and mouse model, the Windows keys you should hit are varying from one to another. Thus you may try the following combinations to make your disappearing cursor back to visible in Windows 10: Fn + F3 / Fn + F5 / Fn + F9 / Fn + F11.

If using the Fn keys to retrieve the missing cursor doesn’t work for bringing the mouse cursor back, there could be some errors with your mouse driver in Windows 10. Since upgrading Windows OS sometimes leads to driver or software compatibility issue. To fit Windows 10 with the compatible mouse drivers, you might as well roll back your mouse driver or update it.

Solution 2. Update the Mouse Driver to Fix the Missing Cursor in Windows 10

Step 1. Press Windows + R keys altogether to bring out the Run box.

Step 2. Type devmgmt.msc and then hit Enter to open Device Manager

Step 3. Press Tab to switch to devices list.

Step 4. Use arrow keys to scroll down to Mice and other pointing devices and use the right arrow key to expand it.

Step 5. Use the down arrow key to select your mouse device.

Step 6. Press Shift + F10 open the context menu.

Step 7. Choose Update driver with arrow keys and hit Enter.

Step 8. Follow the on-screen installation instructions to finish the updates and then check whether the lost cursor or mouse not working issue persists on your Windows 10 laptop or desktop PC.

Good luck..

Hello, I see that you are having some issues with your mouse cursor disappearing. You may want to check if the mouse cursor is not disabled by the Function key settings. If not, you may want to try checking the mouse drivers if they are up to date. Go to Device manager by right clicking on the Windows icon on the bottom left and selecting on it. Now, look for the HID compliant mouse, or a trackpad driver. Try updating that driver. If the latest driver could not be found, you may as well try to roll back the driver as there is a possibility that the latest drivers may be causing the issue.

Hope this helps, and let me know if you have further questions! :-)

Hello,

I'm Independent Advisor and Microsoft MVP, here to help you with your question.

Please refer following suggestions:

Run Hardware and Devices troubleshooter from Settings app > Update & security > Troubleshoot.

If that doesn't helps, do this:

1. Press Windows + X, select Device Manager.
2. Under Mice and pointing devices, right click on your mouse device and select Uninstall. Click OK.
3. Then click Action > Scan for hardware changes.
4. Close Device Manager and reboot.

Hope this helps!