Help, mouse pointer turns into black box:

[rtholder]

Whenever I move my mouse pointer to any place on the screen
where I could type, the pointer turns into a black box
instead of the typing pointer. Anywhere on the screen you
could copy text it does the same thing. On links and
anywhere you can't copy text it works fine. I have tried
all the settings, including changing pointers and although
all changes take affect right away. None stop the black
box. The black box sometimes look like a bar code. There
is a little vertical line the same height as the black box
on the left edge of the screen that follows the black box
up and down only when the pointer turns into this black
box. If I reboot, the black box will goe away for a while.
I am running win xp pro, and this problem happens with
any program and windows. Like right now typing this note.
If the pointer is moved inside this text box, it turns
into the black box. As long as the pointer is outside the
text box and not on any other input area, it's fine. The
black box turns the text under it white so you can see the
text under it. It no way prevents anything from working,
but it's impossible to put the pointer between to letters
or in a graphic program click a on a little line because
only have this black box, no precise location. The
flashing vertical line that shows where your typing works
fine once you click a spot to start typing. The black box
is about twice as tall as the flashing vertical line when
your typing, squared and filled in.

[Bill]

Ditto

First off - sorry to say that I have no solution.
I can only say that I have exactly the same problem .
For me it came about when I had to change my motherboard in a hurry after a
power surge.
The new has on-board VGA and I've not really looked too deeply into the
drivers etc. (I'm planning to put in a quality one as and when finances
allow)
It's not a permanent thing on my machine and if I re-boot it goes away until
............?
I don't think that it's an XP problem- more so hardware and/or drivers- I
was running XP on my old mb for 18 months and never had this pb.

Bill






"rtholder" > wrote in message
...
> Whenever I move my mouse pointer to any place on the screen
> where I could type, the pointer turns into a black box
> instead of the typing pointer. Anywhere on the screen you
> could copy text it does the same thing. On links and
> anywhere you can't copy text it works fine. I have tried
> all the settings, including changing pointers and although
> all changes take affect right away. None stop the black
> box. The black box sometimes look like a bar code. There
> is a little vertical line the same height as the black box
> on the left edge of the screen that follows the black box
> up and down only when the pointer turns into this black
> box. If I reboot, the black box will goe away for a while.
> I am running win xp pro, and this problem happens with
> any program and windows. Like right now typing this note.
> If the pointer is moved inside this text box, it turns
> into the black box. As long as the pointer is outside the
> text box and not on any other input area, it's fine. The
> black box turns the text under it white so you can see the
> text under it. It no way prevents anything from working,
> but it's impossible to put the pointer between to letters
> or in a graphic program click a on a little line because
> only have this black box, no precise location. The
> flashing vertical line that shows where your typing works
> fine once you click a spot to start typing. The black box
> is about twice as tall as the flashing vertical line when
> your typing, squared and filled in.

[Mike Bynum]

"rtholder" > wrote in message
...
> Whenever I move my mouse pointer to any place on the screen
> where I could type, the pointer turns into a black box
> instead of the typing pointer. Anywhere on the screen you
> could copy text it does the same thing. On links and
> anywhere you can't copy text it works fine. I have tried
> all the settings, including changing pointers and although
> all changes take affect right away. None stop the black
> box. The black box sometimes look like a bar code. There
> is a little vertical line the same height as the black box
> on the left edge of the screen that follows the black box
> up and down only when the pointer turns into this black
> box. If I reboot, the black box will goe away for a while.
> I am running win xp pro, and this problem happens with
> any program and windows. Like right now typing this note.
> If the pointer is moved inside this text box, it turns
> into the black box. As long as the pointer is outside the
> text box and not on any other input area, it's fine. The
> black box turns the text under it white so you can see the
> text under it. It no way prevents anything from working,
> but it's impossible to put the pointer between to letters
> or in a graphic program click a on a little line because
> only have this black box, no precise location. The
> flashing vertical line that shows where your typing works
> fine once you click a spot to start typing. The black box
> is about twice as tall as the flashing vertical line when
> your typing, squared and filled in.


rtholder,

One thing you might check is to see what width your cursor is set to. You
can find this in Control Panel/Accessibility Options under the Display tab.
That is the only thing I know of that would give you the black box when
typing.

Mike

[freeaswind]

though i have not come across such situation ,i suggest you had better
uninstall your mouse as well as the mouse driver, reboot ,windows will
automatically find new device-- your mouse ,and it will also automatically
install driver for you

[Chuck]

"rtholder" > wrote in message
...
> Whenever I move my mouse pointer to any place on the screen
> where I could type, the pointer turns into a black box
> instead of the typing pointer. Anywhere on the screen you
> could copy text it does the same thing. On links and
> anywhere you can't copy text it works fine. I have tried
> all the settings, including changing pointers and although
> all changes take affect right away. None stop the black
> box. The black box sometimes look like a bar code. There
> is a little vertical line the same height as the black box
> on the left edge of the screen that follows the black box
> up and down only when the pointer turns into this black
> box. If I reboot, the black box will goe away for a while.
> I am running win xp pro, and this problem happens with
> any program and windows. Like right now typing this note.
> If the pointer is moved inside this text box, it turns
> into the black box. As long as the pointer is outside the
> text box and not on any other input area, it's fine. The
> black box turns the text under it white so you can see the
> text under it. It no way prevents anything from working,
> but it's impossible to put the pointer between to letters
> or in a graphic program click a on a little line because
> only have this black box, no precise location. The
> flashing vertical line that shows where your typing works
> fine once you click a spot to start typing. The black box
> is about twice as tall as the flashing vertical line when
> your typing, squared and filled in.

Look in control panel, printers and other hardware, mouse, see what Text
Select
looks like. If it doesn't look like a capital i, try selecting Use
Default, if you can.

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

freeaswind wrote:
> though i have not come across such situation ,i suggest you had better
> uninstall your mouse as well as the mouse driver, reboot ,windows will
> automatically find new device-- your mouse ,and it will also
> automatically install driver for you

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