I kind of juggled between enabling and disabling this option. Hence, disabling or enabling the hardware acceleration usage will fix the chrome cursor issue. Hardware acceleration also influences the keyboard, trackpad, touch screen display, etc. It typically helps in improving display performance when using a chrome browser. The hardware acceleration is a pre-built feature in the Chrome browser that helps in smooth functioning. Pro-tip: You can bookmark the URL: chrome://restart and tap on it whenever the mouse pointer is not showing up. Restarting the browser will close all the existing tabs and running extension temporarily and make the mouse cursor reappear. Make sure that you do not have any unsaved edits in the browser. This will automatically, restart the browser and make the job less painful. Whenever the chrome cursor or mouse pointer is hidden, just try running the chrome://restart in the browser URL. I know it’s quite a tedious job to relaunch chrome after killing from task manager at every instance.Īlternatively, you can use the restart function in chrome to completely relaunch the browser without killing the task manager. This is quite a tedious process to kill every running thread, however, will help in resolving the chrome cursor disappearance issue. This should temporarily make the cursor reappear in the Chrome browser. This will kill all the existing chrome processes that are even running in the background.Īfter verifying that are no chrome threads are running in task manager and completely exit all the processes, just reopen the browser and start using the chrome browser with the chrome cursor on the screen.

Select the Google Chrome processes from the program list.

Touch screen not working on chrome