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by chgobigdog

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Its happened several times - the cursor becomes invisable! I don't know what's causing it to hide. Makes it hard to close screens when you can't see the cursor. Only way I can fix is to close out system and restart. How can I fix? Irv50

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by syscokid

You may need reinstall your mouse driver, or to contact your mouse manufacturer for an updated driver.

by pyro

This happens to me a lot try this
Press ctrl+Alt+del u will get a close program window... try to move ur mose a little bit and it will be come visible again
Hope it helps

PYRO

by maven

Also check your video driver and screen resolution. At times, if you use a resolution which is too high for your setup, the computer won't be able to redraw the cursor enough.

Note that you can navigate and use Windows 9x without a mouse. Alt-F4 closes the active window, etc.

by stngfan1

Try to slow down your video accelaration settings in Device Mgr,Performance, Graphics. Move the slider to the left one notch and reboot. See if it happens, if it does move the slider again until it stops.

This solved my mouse problem with an ATI video card.

TM

by ian mclean

If replaceing or updating your drivers doesnt work odds are that you are low or out of system resources. Don't run as many programs at once. Keep things like aol from running on boot. Good luck.

by lieane

It's possible that your mouse speed is a bit too fast. Try slowing the speed down via the control panel (mouse), or changing you mouse pointer to one that's more visible.
If you need to change from one app. to anoter + brings up a box where you can cycle forward through open apps. or backwards ++. Another way of closing your current app. is +

by asidonline

I had this problem when users were switching between programs running in a (full-screen) dos box and then coming back to windows.

My solution: starting and exiting a new dos session seemed to refresh the display.

I became an instant hero to the users who would just power off their pcs to bring their mouse back!

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