Mouse lags on Laptop

After I replaced the HDD with a SSD hard-drive approx. 9 months ago I noticed that both the touchpad mouse and the wired mouse lagged. As the laptop was not going to be used, I did not investigate the issue. Now my daughter needs it. I downloaded a fresh copy of Windows 10, the method where you keep your files. The problem still exists with both the touchpad and the wired USB mouse. The first couple of movements of the mouse are ok and then around 1 in 3 lag. I have updated the drivers through the Device Manager and have disabled Realtek both in the task manager and Config, problem still exists. Can anyone in the forum offer any help or fixes?

Windows 10 Version 22H2, build 19045.3636

Agh55 said:

After I replaced the HDD with a SSD hard-drive approx. 9 months ago I noticed that both the touchpad mouse and the wired mouse lagged.

Are you sure that you have the right drivers? or the exact ones you used to have? I've had minimal different results after reinstalling or upgrading because the OS might change (or upgrade) something without telling me, so, my method of choice when replacing a hard drive is cloning the disk, this way I make sure I have an exact copy of my previous hard drive.

Unrelated but worth sharing: there was a time when I experienced mouse lags after a hardware change, this happened after replacing my already dying WIFI+Bluetooth dual mini pcie with a different model, it worked "perfectly", except for a random but persistent mouse lag. I solved this replacing this one with a third option. It was a driver issue as the piece worked perfectly on W8.1, but W10 didn't like that piece of hardware.

Hi Dalchina

I booted in to safe mode and both the touchpad and external wired mouse worked perfectly. There were no programs hogging the processor, after a couple of minutes it settles at around 15%.

I used MSCONFig and disabled all the non-essential programs, problem still exists.

Deleted all programs, ie Office, Nortons etc, problem still exists.

Created a media ISO disk with a fresh copy of Windows and installed it. As the update came near to the end the mouse was working perfectly, until I created a pin and the problem re-occurred. The laptop now only has Windows on it. Any more help would be appreciated.

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Hi Hroldan

Thanks for your input, one for the future, I'll create clone copy of my hard drive, when I get the problem with the mouse lag resolved.

Dalchina,

Thanks again for your help, I followed up on the graphics card for the laptop after you mentioned it doesn't use the same driver as in Safe mode. I downloaded the latest version from the HP website, and this fixed the problem.

I should have mentioned in my first thread, this was my daughter's laptop which has Windows 10, my PC has Windows 11.