Windows 10: Mouse pointer changes to a circle with a centre dot and up/down arrows in it

Hi - I pasting in a question asked before - clearly I'm not the only person experiencing this problem. It's driving me mad! It keeps changing the mous pointer to a fast scrolling icon that I have to deactivate by clicking the mous wheel again.Here's the original question posted:The cursor changes the shape from the arrow to a circle with an up arrow and an arrow downWhen I have opened a program like Edge or Excel, the cursor changes from an arrow to a circle with an up arrow and an arrow down. This new symbol can not activate anything by moving it around with the mouse. Does anyone k

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Mouse pointer changes to a circle with a centre dot and up/down arrows in it

Hi - I pasting in a question asked before - clearly I'm not the only person experiencing this problem. It's driving me mad! It opens multiple pages when I'm online and makes pages go up and down automatically. Here's the original question posted:

The cursor changes the shape from the arrow to a circle with an up arrow and an arrow down

When I have opened a program like Edge on my Windows 10 PC, the cursor changes form from an arrow to a circle with an up arrow and an arrow down. This new symbol can not activate anything by moving it around with the mouse. To
close the open program, press Ctrl + Alt + Del to get to the job list. At the same time, the circle symbol turns into the well-known arrow, and I can continue the work normally.

How do I avoid the annoying circle icon?

 

Spinning blue circle next to mouse pointer

This is an incredibly frustrating issue. I do a lot of screen capture recordings and I can't have my mouse arrow popping up a blue circle every 4 to 5 seconds. I'm not sure exactly when this started for me, but now that I'm ready to do some more recording
I'm noticing it constantly.

Here's a solution I've found to at least stop the blue circle:

• Start with the Microsoft suggestion of going to the mouse properties.
• Click on the "Pointers" tab.
• Select the "Working In Background" pointer and click on "Browse"
• Select the first mouse arrow option (the one that looks like a normal mouse arrow)

This doesn't get rid of whatever is causing the system to have to keep working in the background, but it will at least make the blue circle stop popping up.

 

Spinning blue circle next to mouse pointer

I did a quick video on this fix.