Most laptops have a touchpad toggle key. The cursor often reappears immediately. A simple restart can fix many problems.

Reseat your mouse or restart your computer to quickly fix a disappearing cursor issue. Check for Windows updates, as they might solve cursor problems caused by system glitches. Use keyboard shortcuts ...

Data Doctors' Ken Colburn has six laptop touchpad fixes for when it’s skipping, lagging, ignoring taps or randomly sending ...

Have problems with your Windows or Surface laptop where the mouse cursor keeps jumping as if it’s trying to evade a cat, when you do not touch the touchpad? That’s an issue that could make the device ...

Q: Sometimes the cursor disappears from the screen of my five-year-old MacBook Air laptop. If I open and close the "lid" of the laptop, the cursor eventually reappears. What's wrong? Does it indicate ...

I recently started using the much better looking Bluecurve cursors under XFree 4.3.0 (on Slackware 9 if it makes a difference). There is only one problem...when my screen automatically blanks (this is ...

Q: Here is a computer problem I haven’t seen in probably over 20 years. I’m very knowledgeable about computers, and I have built and programmed many back when they cost around $2,500. However, my wife ...