I was using Windows 11 on my Lenovo Yoga today, and suddenly my cursor started jumping to the top left corner of my screen. This was happening ever...
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THANK YOU!
I signed up to dev.to just to say that. I love my Lenovo Yoga. I use it for my university studies, but I noticed the mouse cursor behaving erratically while the computer was doing something intensive. I thought it was a glitch with the trackpad. I recently bought a mouse so that I could play some games during the Christmas break, and found everything to be totally unplayable with the mouse cursor jumping around so erratically.
Disabling the pen worked perfect! Of course, I will still need the pen - I keep all my course notes in OneNote - but at least I can disable it now when need be.
From my own research, it sounds like this has been an ongoing issue with Lenovo Yoga series laptops for several years now (I see one post from 2018 complaining of the same issue). It's a shame they won't address the issue. I hope it's only a software issue and not a hardware one.
Anyway, thank you for making games playable!
signed up just to say thank you as well :)
I'm glad this was helpful. I sure wish that Lenovo would fix it.
Just had this exact same issue and this article solved it
I tried the tried and true method of unplugging the mouse, disabling touchpad, and touchscreen, and was about to try a bios update when 5 minutes of searching found this article for the win
I'm glad this helped. There are a lot more people viewing this article than I expected: this seems to be a common hardware defect.
omg thank you KING!! it was only doing this when i was trying to play the sims 4 😭 which made it impossible. but this fixed my issue! i thought a fuzz was on the touch screen causing it to do this haha
I'm a Sys Admin and we have deployed dozens of Lenovo Yoga 7 (AMD) laptops across my work environment.
I had about half my end users complain about a mouse glitch where the mouse just randomly jumps to the top corner of the screen. Sometimes it does it several times a day, sometimes it doesn't do it at all.
I narrowed it down to the default HID drivers that Windows installs when you first plug in a mouse, keyboard or ANY Human Interface Device (including Bluetooth devices like the pen).
Removing or disabling these drivers from Device Manager WON'T fix it. Windows will simply re-install the HID drivers again when you reboot and you will end up with multiple HID (Human interface device) drivers for the same device.
Long story short, use a keyboard or mouse that has dedicated drivers and install those drivers, not devices that depend on the awful HID drivers that Windows uses by default. For the Pen that comes with you Yoga, make SURE you install the drivers for it from Lenovo, don't let Windows use the default HID drivers for the Pen.
This is how I fixed it for my end users:
Where I work, we use Logitech Unifying Software for our keyboards and mice. Most of my End Users also use an external screen / docking station with their Yoga 7 laptops as well.
Instead of allowing Windows to default install a keyboard or mouse with "HID drivers", I used the Logitech Unifying Software to install these devices.
How you do this is go to Logitech's website and find the "Logitech Unifying Software", download and install it. The install is about 4MB.
Once installed, you Click "Advanced", this button will be on the first window that pops up once the software is installed. If you have a Logitech Unifying receiver plugged into your laptop, it will show you all the Logitech devices that are currently installed. Go ahead and click the "check for updates" button and wait a few seconds. if you have any kind of internet, the software will update itself in about 5 seconds.
Warning: before doing the next step make sure your touch pad is working or have a spare USB mouse just in case.
"Un-Pair" all your devices and re-pair them so they get a fresh update. you will likely lose your mouse (if you are using a wireless Logitech mouse) so make sure your touch pad is working as you will need a non-Logitech device to do the "re-Pairing".
You will need to flip the power switch off and then back on during the pairing process.
Once done, all the end users I did this for reported no more mouse glitch.
This is a super thorough write up. This is gonna help some people for sure!
Ive been having this issue with a brand new lenovo yoga and this fixed my problem! THANKS!! ive been looking all over the web and nothing was helping! THANK YOUUUUUU!!!!
I'm glad this helped!
THANK YOU. I was going crazy.
Issue solved
I'm glad this was able to make your computer usable again!
Thanks Tyler! Curious how you discovered the resolution.
Great work!
I sunk a whole day into this because I needed the laptop to work. I eventually realized that I should try to debug on Linux instead of Windows. People who use Linux and post on the Linux forums tend to be power users.
Some Linux forum post led me towards the
xinputcommand, which is how I discovered that there was a "pen stylus" input in the first place. When I disabled that, the problem went away, then I just had to figure out how to do the same thing back on Windows.This worked like a gem - thank you!
Whoa, you found this the day after this article was published too! I'm glad this was able to fix your problem 🙂
Thank you very much for sharing, I have the same problem, but I want to use the screen pen. I use the computer for remote teaching and disabling the pen is not an option. Jumping cursor is very annoying during the lecture. I tried many options even factory reset, but nothing works. Disabling the pen means we disabled the touch screen. This means that most probably there is a physical problem in the screen touch sensitive layers. If the computer is still under warranty, I recommend to send it for fixing, maybe changing the whole screen.
It seems like a hardware problem. You might want to contact Lenovo.
I made an account here to say thank you. I’ve been at it for 3 days trying to figure this out.
Oh my god you are a life saver!!! This was the fix!!!
This helped! I signed up this website just to say THANK YOU!! It seems the problem started in October when a bunch of driver updates pushed through. Seems Lenovo hasn't found an official solution.
Thank you SO MUCH! This seems to be working!!!!
thank you SO much this solved it!! You saved me from ripping my hair out of my head!!!!! I was the same as Colby below - was about to try a bios update but this solved it.
Thankyou soo much Smith, you are the best