when I undock and attempt to use the scroll pad I will no doubt dislike the fact that I will have to reset the scroll pad to be operational but at least it fixes this very annoying issue for the time being.
Seems to work for the time being, will report back if this is not a long term solution. Went into the 'scroll pad' settings of my mouse and disabled the scroll pad-turned it off. However I liked the features of a wireless mouse and keyboard and thought new devices would be alright to test, wrong. I removed the wireless mouse and keyboard that were part of my docking setup and attached a wired mouse and keyboard directly into the docking station (NOT into the USB of the laptop itself). My problems began months ago and I had my company IT guy look at it. I have a Dell laptop which is almost always on a docking station at work. Firstly my issues are the same as those mentioned in this string (cursor changes arbitrarily to double horizontal with dot), this happens not only in browsing (I use only Firefox) but also in Outlook when typing an email and in Word, etc. Here is an answer I have not seen anywhere.
