just registered so I could tell you how to fix the problem. seems that if you have the synaptics driver running when windows starts this happens. Just go to start run type "msconfig" go to startup and take the checkmark out of the synaptics driver, hit apply then restart. Fixed my issue.
Didn't work for me. I ended up adding an entry to the Registry. That worked. Here's how:

Add a new startup application
Execute REGEDIT and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run].

For each program you want to start automatically create a new string value using a descriptive name, and set the value of the string to the program executable.

For example, to automatically start Notepad, add a new entry of "Notepad"="c:\windows\notepad.exe".