For maybe a couple of years, since a Win10 update, my mousepad cursor on my laptop, has misbehaved. Draw rapid circles on the pad, the mouse arrow on screen would follow it, but every couple of seconds it would pause. It made it difficult and frustrating to use. I spent hours researching the problem, trying driver updates, no one seemed to have quite the same problem, and nothing helped, until....
Yesterday evening, I had another go, fiddling with the mouse settings. I tried all of them, then finally tried switching on 'mouse trails', that worked, but obviously left a trail. Turning the trail length to minimum left no trail, but worked as well. Now I can use the mousepad, without the constant errors..