My Laptop
DEll Inspiron 1520
Windows Vista Home
1GB RAM
Celeron 1.86GHz

When watching moives my mouse disappears.
If I use the CTRL key to locate it, the circle indicates but cannot get the
mouse to return without shutting down.....powering off!

Please advise

Open Device Manager in Control Panel, doubleclick your USB Root Hub(s) and
set the Power Management tab to not "allow computer to turn off this device"
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"Dermot" <Dermot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E248B278-2155-48D6-9CFA-1A7F1D71E2C1@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> My Laptop
> DEll Inspiron 1520
> Windows Vista Home
> 1GB RAM
> Celeron 1.86GHz
>
> When watching moives my mouse disappears.
> If I use the CTRL key to locate it, the circle indicates but cannot get
> the
> mouse to return without shutting down.....powering off!
>
> Please advise[/color]

Turn off "pointer trails" in Control Panel (Classic view) > Mouse


I Bleed Blue and Gold
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"Dermot" <Dermot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E248B278-2155-48D6-9CFA-1A7F1D71E2C1@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> My Laptop
> DEll Inspiron 1520
> Windows Vista Home
> 1GB RAM
> Celeron 1.86GHz
>
> When watching moives my mouse disappears.
> If I use the CTRL key to locate it, the circle indicates but cannot get the
> mouse to return without shutting down.....powering off!
>
> Please advise[/color]

Hi Mark

Thanks for the reply.
I looked at the USB check box setting, but it it wasn't checked.
Although I don't think it's relevant as I am using a PS/2 mouse.

What I meant to say was that the mouse pointer dissappears.

Any other suggestions

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Open Device Manager in Control Panel, doubleclick your USB Root Hub(s) and
> set the Power Management tab to not "allow computer to turn off this device"
> --
> Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web
> interface.
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales/help/help_en-us.htm#RateAPostAsAnswer[/url]
> Mark L. Ferguson
> .
>
> "Dermot" <Dermot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E248B278-2155-48D6-9CFA-1A7F1D71E2C1@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > My Laptop
> > DEll Inspiron 1520
> > Windows Vista Home
> > 1GB RAM
> > Celeron 1.86GHz
> >
> > When watching moives my mouse disappears.
> > If I use the CTRL key to locate it, the circle indicates but cannot get
> > the
> > mouse to return without shutting down.....powering off!
> >
> > Please advise[/color]
>[/color]

Thanks fro replying

The pointer trails were not set....I tried all possile mouse
configurations....but no success.

I wondered if there was some other setting in Vista that I might have
overlooked but I concluded that it may be a Vista flaw.


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Turn off "pointer trails" in Control Panel (Classic view) > Mouse
>
>
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "Dermot" <Dermot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E248B278-2155-48D6-9CFA-1A7F1D71E2C1@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > My Laptop
> > DEll Inspiron 1520
> > Windows Vista Home
> > 1GB RAM
> > Celeron 1.86GHz
> >
> > When watching moives my mouse disappears.
> > If I use the CTRL key to locate it, the circle indicates but cannot get the
> > mouse to return without shutting down.....powering off!
> >
> > Please advise[/color]
>
>[/color]