Windows 10: Mouse cursor has randomly enlarged and has lines going through it

Check through the forums.. there are ways to keep this from occurring.

 

The only solution I have discovered for the time being is to uninstall each graphics card via device manager, so that the system uses Intel's onboard graphics - No gaming for now, but least I can use my system again.

 

Same problem here. Build 10166. Started about an hour ago at the same time that I had to reboot because 2 of my monitors weren't responding. Hugely annoying. Can't use the default graphics driver, because it destroys my triple monitor setup, and makes using the PC nearly impossible. Oddly enough, I do not have a driver update that's installed today. I am on v353 though.

 

I re-downloaded the driver package from NVidia. Selected custom, and did a clean install of the entire package. Seems to have cleared the issue up. At least through 2 restarts so far.

 

I have the same issue with the cursor; additionally the second monitor is all laggy and doesn't seem like it has a card driver at all, if that makes any sense.

I am now installing the Nvidia Driver to see if that indeed solves the issue.

Running Win 10 Insider Preview Build 10162; Nvidia driver 10.18.13.5350 (353.50)

Edit: Easier method: Go to the device manager and just select rollback driver. It restored it to the previous driver and all is well again.

 

This is creapy! I'm running build 10166 and I too have this problem! First I thought it randomly appeared like an application changed the cursor. While using Visual Studio I had a hard time selecting lines, the arrow cursor was normal, but the text cursor was large. I restarted my computer and now all cursors are large and ugly!

Just like many of you, I had problems with my secondary monitor! Before making dinner everything worked as it should, when I got back, only my primary monitor worked, now both my monitors are old, so I tried to reconnect the secondary monitor but it still wasn't discovered...

Switching my two monitors put the main desktop on my secondary monitor, but Windows didn't resize the desktop to fit the monitor (primary monitor is 1920 x 1200, secondary is 1280 x 1024)...
Rebooting fixed my monitor and I continued to work and watch Netflix... I do not believe the cursor problem started instantly after the reset...

Now as I said earlier it felt hard selecting lines in Visual Studio and when I switched to Dreamweaver I noticed this ugly dubble sized cursor. A restart only caused all cursors to fail!

Known facts:
After restart at the login screen, the arrow cursor is fine, but the text cursor when entering my password is wrong! After login, all cursors are wrong...

Removing my graphics drivers fixes the issue, but leaves me unable to game and run 3D heavy applications...

Enabling pointer shadow (Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Mouse -> Pointers), fixes, from what I've seen, all but the text select cursor! Pointer trails fixes all cursors, but looks horrible, even when set to fast!

I remember these fixes from when an ATI driver was messed up, so I do believe this is caused by some sort of graphics driver failure, don't know if Nvidia only, or if AMD is affected too?

Well, time to roll back drivers, hopefully this is fixed soon! And for those who say automatic driver update is bad, well, yes if the diver has problems like this! But generally speaking, when a driver is known to fix and not cause problems, auto-update would be fine for normal users. It should however be easy to disable, or rather, they should make it possible to easily select what should and shouldn't be updated automatically form some sort of list!

 

Nvidia has admitted it is a problem with their driver and are working on a fix for it as we speak.

 

I found a temporary fix. open magnifier, keep at 100% zoom and minimize it.

 

Created an account just to confirm this strange solution works. I guess it'll do until Nvidia gets their driver sorted out.

 

It fixes the cursor problem? But does it fix poor performance or malfunctioning of the secondary monitor if available?
That is what triggered me that there was a problem, before my mouse cursor went screwed.

 

People seems to have different problems, some even say that the driver fixes issues with gaming... For me, the update crashed my system causing the graphics card to be non-responsive, only showing through the primary DVI port, not recognizing display preferred sizes when connected to different monitors, etc...

However a restart fixed that!

Still, if the driver have no useful features for you, do a roll back!, some have succeeded in downloading 353.30 and doing a clean install! For me, windows managed to install 353.50 just after the Nvidia setup removed the driver and before the good old 353.30 was installed...

You can, however, do a roll back from Device Manager: Display Adapters -> * Your Card * -> Right click for Properties -> Driver -> Roll Back Driver!

Or you could try to remove the driver and tell it to delete is as well! Then install the working 353.30 driver...

Hope this helps if people still have problems!

 

thanks man
i made an account just to thank you
you've made my day

 

If you install the driver 353.30 from Nvidia site it will not downgrade your driver, you will still have 353.50 driver installed and the issue is not solved.

You need to go to Windows uninstall apps and uninstall Nvidia 353.50 driver then restart Windows, after uninstall it will auto downgrade to 353.30 and all the issues will be solved.

 

What you suggested worked initially, but after about 5-10 minutes the driver automatically reverts back to 353.50

 

oh.... that sucks. Mine still works, but probably it will auto-update soon... *Think