Windows 10: SUPPORT - weird square appearing next to my cursor only in this game. Not on desktop No...

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Gray Square on Desktop - Frozen Cursor

I have a gray square on the right hand side of my desktop (see pic below) which causes the cursor to blink repeatedly and the mouse does not work. To fix this issue, I have to place a finger in the square and slowly move it away (swipe it away slowly).

This square has just shown up on my laptop (Windows 10) in the past 4 days and I'm stumped as to what is it and how to get rid of it. One weird thing is that if I am in Word and the box shows up, it magnifies my document when I try to swipe it off of the
screen.

Please advise....

 

Square line in desktop icons

This is normal and should disappear if you move the cursor off the icon into an empty space on the desktop and left click once. Or, just move off the icon with cursor.

 

Gray Square on Desktop - Frozen Cursor

Here's today's update.

Starting with yesterday, uninstalled all of my recent Windows Updates and any other Update from any other application (mostly Adobe) and then I did a clean boot start. Got thru that fairly quickly (remember, I am technically challenged) but I got 'er done
and when the laptop restarted, the issue was there again. The laptop automatically started to download and install the latest Windows Update and I didn't stop it. I uninstalled a few programs and shortened by startup list of apps, still the square and gray
circles were there. I then ran a series of malware and virus scans from various apps all resulting with no issues. I also had a 'Fix Me Stick' which I ran and resulted in nothing to fix. So worked through my day, swiping the square and gray circles away from
my display until I went to bed last night.

This morning, I started up the Dell and began working - but no square and no circles. I worked all day on the laptop using Photoshop, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel and NO SQUARE AND NO CIRCLES ALL DAY!

I do not know what has happened nor what fixed this issue but it suddenly has stopped. I will watch if the 'crop circles and square' returns and if so, I'll update this question again.

Thanks to all who contributed with possible solutions and corrective action steps for me to follow. All contributions and suggestions were and are gratefully accepted and very much appreciated.

Cheers!

Ken