Today’s tip comes from John Cook, who reports that upon purchasing a new Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics card running Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) and using the “Synaptics PS/2 Port Pointing Device” as a mouse, the cursor appears as a vertical bar.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing on the Internet that tells how to correct the problem.
SOLUTION: The problem is with the hardware acceleration.
Right click the desktop, choose properties, go to the Settings tab, click Advanced, choose the Troubleshoot tab, and slide the slider one notch to the left. Click Ok, then OK.
Having problems with my dell inspiron 1100 because somehow I turned off the pointer device and now I can seem to use it at all. Please tell me how to use it without a pointer.