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My cursor recently started to randomly switch to a cursor with the arrow on a mini scrollbar (see circled). Sometimes it is a vertical bar but sometimes it can be horizontal as well.

If I go to "Change pointer size and colour" and change the size/colour (and back), it goes back to normal for a while.

I have googled but most questions pertain to older systems and other laptops (mine is ThinkPad X1 2016). It seems to be a laptop touchpad driver issue, but I cannot find where to turn off "virtual scrolling" in my settings. I have disabled trackpoint but it doesn't seem to solve this issue either.

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xngtng
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If it doesn't arrive in Safe mode or Safe mode with Network, then this might be caused by some installed program or third-party device driver.

You might try first to update all drivers, especially mouse and touchpad, from the manufacturer's site.

If this does not help, to further locate the problematic application, you may use the free tool Autoruns for Windows.

This utility shows all programs configured to run during system bootup or login in its "Everything" tab. You may turn off startup items with a click and return them later with another click. You may avoid listing Microsoft products by using the menu Options > Hide Microsoft Entries, Hide Empty Locations and Hide Windows Entries

I would suggest turning off startup entries in bunches, drilling down to the startup program that causes this behavior. Once identified, it might have some setting that can avoid the problem, or can be left out of startup and only be invoked when required (verify that once invoked it does not add another startup entry, but such can again be disabled by Autoruns).

To short-circuit the process, start with products that relate to the mouse and touchpad.

harrymc
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Just disable the track point, I also had the same issue. and it worked for me

Mouse properties --> and disable the "Enable Trackpoint"

Yazy
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It might be related to touchpad gesture settings. Try opening Windows Settings - Devices - Touchpad, and fiddling with Scroll and Zoom options there. Touchpad setting screenshot

YudhiWidyatama
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I had the same problem an it was fixed by disabling the touchpad when mouse is connected

Jakkes
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