Weird Video Issue on E6400

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I have a new Vista Latitude E6400 with 2GB Ram and the Nvidia Quadro 160m nvs card w/256. Setup it up once off of the image that came from the factory as well as a reinstall from the Vista DVD. Shortly after finishing all the driver updates my Vista animated cursors no longer are animated and it's driving me crazy. I still get the pointer with the circle or the circle but both are not animated. I have updated every driver that I can get my hands on from the Dell site, but nothing seems to help. Does anyone have any idea? The other odd thing is that I am getting Explorer.exe app crashes from the Dell Control Point when attempting to open the network and Sharing Center from left clicking on the network icons in the sys tray.

willf20 · Answer

The post discusses a weird video issue on a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop running Vista. The user's animated cursors are no longer animated, and they are also experiencing Explorer.exe app crashes. They have tried updating all the drivers from the Dell site but haven't found a solution. Another user with the same machine confirms the issue and suggests a temporary fix by selecting a different cursor set and then selecting the Windows Aero cursors again. They are also looking for a permanent solution.

konradb · Answer

I noticed the same problem. E6400+XP+Intel graphics, the problem is - I think - with the mouse driver for the touchpad. Animated cursors keep animating when I use external mouse, but the moment I touch the touchpad the animation stops. While experimenting I've removed apoint.exe from registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) and the problem disappeared after restart, but it disappeared together with the touchpad settings application available from Control Panel -- and I don't like the default settings (like drag-lock). So I've put the line back in registry. So I'd greatly appreciate help here: how to 'fix' apoint.exe driver -or- where/how to change settings for the touchpad if apoint.exe is removed from the startup.

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