Vista Pointer Animations Stop Animating

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I have an annoying issue with Windows Vista Ultimate 64.

Sometimes the pointer's animations will stop working. The blue doughnut thingy that replaced the hour glass is the most noticable. Changing the pointer scheme can sometimes solve the issue temporarily. But it doesn't last and sure enough that will cease animating too. Restarting the PC always solves it.

I think it usually occurs after playing games but other things can effect it too.

At first I thought it was due to my copy of Windows being, erm, lacking certain elements. But I now have a full retail version and this has the same bug.

It occurs on completely different builds with different copies of the OS so it's definitely a software issue. Possibly a programme I have running in the task bar causes it? Would appreciate if someone could help me as although a minor bug, it's quite an annoyance.
 
It's usually either a graphics card driver problem, or a piece of software not return to the correct video mode on exit.

Just one of those things I think. Just make sure you're on the latest graphics driver, and whatever applications you have that use the graphics card are patched up etc etc etc.
 
It's occurred to me on all graphics drivers and cards on different setups though. And that's with both nVidia and ATi.

I always patch my games to the latest version. But I've noticed just about any game (if not all) can cause this.

Thanks for the advice, but something else is causing it.
 
I think it's just 'one of those' bugs. To fix it go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Mouse > Pointers > Change the scheme to something different, then back to default.

The above won't fix it permanently, but it'll avoid having to reboot to sort it out.
 
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I don't think it's a problem symptomatic of an issue. It's just a bug which is a bit annoying.

As it's been around since the launch of Vista AFAIK, and seems to be common, I wonder why MS hasn't fixed it yet...
 
Craig321 said:
I think it's just 'one of those' bugs. To fix it go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Mouse > Pointers > Change the scheme to something different, then back to default.

The above won't fix it permanently, but it'll avoid having to reboot to sort it out.
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That is the quick fix I employ but it's annoying to do it on a realtively frequent basis.
 
Final8y said:
I used to get this with a bad over clock or corrupted OS.
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I really don't think that's causing it for me.

Intel Burn Test runs flawlessly, as does Prime 95's Blend Test.

As for the OS, it occurs on multiple version I have tried. And it seems the problem is very common.

Guess there's no proper fix for it so will give up.
 
Overslop said:
I really don't think that's causing it for me.

Intel Burn Test runs flawlessly, as does Prime 95's Blend Test.

As for the OS, it occurs on multiple version I have tried. And it seems the problem is very common.

Guess there's no proper fix for it so will give up.
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I can pass all them overclocked & then run one other test that will give me a BSOD cpu interrupt.
 
Final8y said:
I can pass all them overclocked & then run one other test that will give me a BSOD cpu interrupt.
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Even if you had a bad OC, I don't see it relating to this issue.

I have seen this issue occur even without OCing and again the problem appears to be common. Also, why would the vista mouse pointer be such a good indicator of OCing success/failure compared to hardware straining tools such as Prime 95 and Intel Burn Test?
 
Ive been getting that for years on XP, its caused by games for me, ones which start to load and turn the pointer into a spinning Disc (like GTA4).
 
Overslop said:
Even if you had a bad OC, I don't see it relating to this issue.

I have seen this issue occur even without OCing and again the problem appears to be common. Also, why would the vista mouse pointer be such a good indicator of OCing success/failure compared to hardware straining tools such as Prime 95 and Intel Burn Test?
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It would not happen right away. but would occur after days of OC benching at unstable levels, that does not mean that's the only cause.
 
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