[Resolved] Windows 8: No Cursor in Startup? Please Help.

Hello,

So after you log in, the touchpad works fine? Just not at the log on screen?

^ Yep, thanks for the reply

Can you please tell me your full laptop model and also what mouse and pointing devices are found in device manager ?

One thing you can try...just maybe...uninstall everything regarding the touchpad and pointing devices (except your mouse of course) and the reinstall latest driver and touchpad application...

When you say you intall the latest drivers I assume you mean the whole synaptics package driver + application, am I right ?

Sony Vaio S Series 15 (SVS151290X)

In device manager it's "Synaptics PS2/Port Touchpad"

and I downloaded the first driver package from here: http://www.synaptics.com/resources/drivers

Also, sometimes the cursor takes like 5 seconds to appear on the desktop after logging in. I get the feeling that Synaptics simply isn't detected or runs are startup/boot.

Going to your laptop's website I found 1 driver update. Have you tried this update before ?
If not please follow the guide by unistalling original drivers first.
It excplicitly says that it cannot overwrite old drivers you have to unistall them first and then install updated driver.
Have a look here. http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/swu-download.pl?mdl=SVS15...
I assume you have windows 8 64-bit installed.
Btw did you upgrade the operating system or laptop came as is?

It's W8 x64 and yes the laptop comes with Windows 8

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies,

I was able to solve the issue with the following steps:

1. Uninstall current drivers through device manager
2. Restart with default MS drivers
3. Download & Install the stock or new Synaptics Drivers from Sony here: http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select-system.pl
4. Restart again, and you should be to use the cursor at login and see Synaptics Manager back.

I tried downloading and installing the drivers from the synaptics website, but for some reason they don't 't install correctly, and if the cursor works, you can't access Synaptics Drivers.

So its important to download the drivers through Sony's website, not through VAIO update or synaptic's website.

Thanks again!

Nice! Glad you made it! You are welcome!