Thanks, much; but that is already checked.
What happens is the mouse's arrowhead shaped pointer changes into an "I" shaped pointer , when the arrow passes over a box into which I can type, like the one I'm typing in now.
The "I" shaped pointer is still visible, and right now is obscuring two letters in words on two lines.
To be fair, sometimes when I start to type it does disappear--but just as often I have to grab the mouse to make it go away (infuriating to a touch typist, when having to constantly do this, esp. when entering data into database fields).
Flaky, like every other thing MS does.
Thanks, everyone, but we've wasted too much time on this already.
by the time we figure out even this little thing--if it can be figured out--the software will be outdated anyhow, and it's on to the latest bug release.
I wonder if your desk is too vibraty. On my desk at home I use a keyboard tray and I know my mouse will twitch around a lot while I’m doing keyboard stuff. Some boxes don’t bother to implement the cursor disappear thing, the OS option is just step one the application guys also have to tell the OS when the user is typing, like it doesn’t look like FireFox has bothered. But if you’ve got it disappearing sometimes and not others it could be something making the mouse twitch while you type.
Good luck.