Hello and welcome to Windows Central with your first post! What device are you referring to? If a PC, are you referring to the typing cursor or the mouse/touchpad cursor?

If you're referring to the mouse/touchpad cursor, the disappearance of it depends on where you're typing. For example, right now while typing here in Microsoft Edge, my mouse cursor didn't disappear; however, if I head over to Notepad and begin typing there the cursor would disappear - nonetheless, as soon as I move the mouse or touch the touchpad the cursor re-appears instantly and it doesn't seem to affect my typing. I have the exact same issue on my laptop too (also a Lenovo if that makes a difference). It's driving me crazy, makes my computer nearly unusable because I can't type anywhere unless I move extremely slowly or keep clicking my cursor back into the field after every few keystrokes.Hang on, that's a separate issue. The cursor jumping to somewhere else (other than where you want to type) is an age old problem on laptops and is caused by the heel of your thumb brushing the touchpad as you type. What will happen now is that you will vigorously deny it! (Don't worry, everybody does.

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) However, next time you are typing, pay particular attention to your thumbs and you will see I'm right. Alternatively, shield the touchpad with a piece of cardboard and the problem will disappear.

This problem irks me so much I always disable the touchpad on machines if they have a touch screen. That cures it, for sure. (By the way, it occurs to me that W10 might increase the sensitivity of the touchpad. Possible, do you think?). Hi, I have the same problem. While typing the 'typing cursor' (this thing ' ') disappears from the text box.

It does not move anywhere else on the screen (just disables the typing) I have to re-click the text box with the mouse cursor, which is in text box as it was when I enabled the typing. I'm 100% sure I'm not touching the mousepad while typing as my wrists are in the air to test this theory. Sometimes the cursor disappears after 1 letter and sometimes after a few words, and everywhere in between.

Makes typing frustrating. Can't remember when this problem started, if I updated prior to the problem or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have this problem and it 100% cannot be that I am brushing the touchpad as I use an external keyboard and mouse and my touchpad is disabled. But sure enough as I have typed this I have lost my cursor twice. It's like the window is losing focus. Nothing is taking its place but it's as if I have clicked on a different window.

Except it definitely isn't that because I can see the mouse arrow just sitting nicely in this text box so if it was an actual mouse click that should be where it goes. This started seemingly randomly a couple days ago and can I just say it is nearly impossible to write a report when you have to click back on your document every 30 seconds to 10 minutes in order to keep typing? Has anyone with this issue managed to solve it?! In Start Menu -> Search box type: 'regedit'. Select 'regedit'. Allow 'regedit'. Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Control Panel -> Desktop Find: ForegroundFlashCount.

Right-Click: on ForegroundFlashCount. Left-Click: 'Modify.' In the field 'Value data' type: 700000000 Left-Click: 'OK'. Then: Find: ForegroundLockTimeout. (just below ForegroundFlashCount) Right-Click: on ForegroundLockTimeout. Left-Click: 'Modify.'

In the field 'Value data' type: Left-Click: 'OK'. What the latter does?