Small persistent lines following mouse icon

I imagine you turned off mouse trails in mouse properties. If not, first thing to try, then Support.

I haven't tried reinstalling any drivers yet. The next time this happens, I'm going to try to save a screen capture and perhaps send it to Dell. Could also be mouse drivers, I suppose. I was just hoping that this was a well-known problem with a well-known fix before I started reinstalling everything!

Greg

I am having this problem too and have writtne to this forum 2 or 3 times with no response. I saw a response one tiem and all it said was that monitor was not set up correctly. Have you tried reinstalling your monitor drivers??

Hope that helps...

Having same problem with thin lines that seem to obliterate the graphics or text - whatever is on the screen...Happens very intermittently. So far have installed new graphics card (Dell sent new part for my 1 month old computer), changed the mouse (thus the driver), uninstalled the fax software as I thought that was conflicting somehow while online; still to no avail, as it happened again recently. Many times I need to reboot to get back to normal. Can't figure what is causing it. I have Dell monitor E770 - is that common to you all that have problems? Please help if any answers...This is my newest computer in 6 years. My two six yr old PCs work great to this day, and I had never seen this kind of display distortion...

I just purchased my computer on 1/14/01 and received it on 1/17/01. From the very first day, I have been experiencing the very same thing you are talking about. Have you reintalled the drivers for the monitor or the mouse with any luck? Seems like when you call Dell support, after being on hold for an hour... you speak with someone that knows nothing anyway.
If you have found a resolutiuon, I would apprecitate some assistance as well.