Mouse gets stuck on primary monitor and cant move on to secondary, sometimes it just jams all together.

[Jan De Smet]

Hey there! I appreciate anyone reading this to help me fix my problem!

What is happening is I have dual monitors, Ive had it on my previous pc, i have it here, Everything set up fairly correctly (to my knowledge) and Ive never had this problem before, it only started showing up a few months ago.

Now what happens is sometimes just at random times it will look like my pc freezes and my mouse is stuck, and doesnt reply to inputs anymore at all. This is superweird because my pc is pretty high end and browsing the internet shouldnt cause him to do this.

What happens other times is that i drag my mouse from my primary monitor (infront of me) to my secondary monitor (left) and suddenly the mouse stops at the left edge of my primary monitor, HOWEVER while I can see my mouse cursor standing still on my primary monitor on the left edge I can click things on my secondary monitor which is right of the primary one, however the actual mouse there is invisible, no icon at all, not bugged not nothing just straight up no icon.

Any help would be much appreciated!!

 

[Desolo]

In the Resolution dialog, the monitors are tagged 1 and 2. If your main monitor is 2, and the dialog shows 1 on right and 2 on left, then the mouse won't track onto the secondary monitor (1) because windows believes it actually on the LEFT of your main monitor, not the right. And vice versa. To fix that, in the dialog, just drag the 2 to the left of 1 and you should be good to go.

Thank you for helping me to fix my husband's PC. I'd just like to add that if the cursor is stuck on one monitor and the windows open on the other monitor, you can try 1) moving the cursor off the far side of the monitor it is stuck on to see if it moves to the far side of the other monitor, or 2) using the accessibility features by tabbing through options in the window, selecting them with enter, and using the arrow keys to move the images of the monitors around in the window.

 

[valeriejbaker]

My problem is that it all worked just fine until I decided I wanted the Left monitor on the right.
2 problems:
1) mouse and 2 icons are now on right instead of left.

I did switch the plugs on the actual tower hoping to fix.
My now Left is #1 and Right is #2. Mouse gets stuck and computer seems frozen requiring me to just turn it off and back on. Also the Left monitor is a bit wider but not taller. Things now look “stretched” a bit on that monitor.
One thing I noticed when in the resolution window is that the 1&2 are in correct order and lined up horizontally but the box with 1 is smaller than box with 2.