I just bought a new Dell Inspiron 1545 loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 250 GBHD. Runs great except for one annoyance. The mouse pointer animations such as the "Working In Background" symbol or the "Busy" symbol are frozen. The working in background symbol works fine right at boot up but as soon as you click a program, start menu, etc. it freezes. I used to have this issue on my desktop when the video drivers would crash. The laptop has Intel Integrated Graphics. I attempted to update the graphics drivers to the latest version but this did not change anything. Any thoughts?
Okay, well if anybody cared, I think I have the source of the problem figured out... But no solution.
Dell loads these Inspiron laptops with ALPS Touchpad drivers. For some reason, the drivers for the touch pad contains a bug that deactivates the animation on the Vista/7 cursors. Essentially, if you go and modify your startup entries you will find an entry named Apoint.exe. If this file is disabled from startup, the problem is no longer apparent. Albeit, you lose scroll with no drivers. So, overall what needs to happen is I need to find drivers that support scroll gestures etc. that are not ALPS Touch pad drivers. From what I have read on different sites is that no matter the version of ALPS drivers, they are a fairly incompetent piece of software. Either the mouse is buggy on the screen (shutter, skipping to wrong spots on the screen) or something simple such as my lack of cursor animation. Let me know if anyone has heard any sort of solution to this.
