Equium A100-549 Touchpad / Pointer problem

Greetings
I am having a problem with daughters laptop :(
When we boot the lappy up 60% of the time once the desktop appears and its loading bits in the bottom right hand corner the pointer just vanishes and we cannot do anything with the machine apart from turn it off using the power button.
If we keep trying to boot the machine up eventually it will operate as normal. Its just like a random occurance :S
I have been through the forums and FAQ's etc, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the touchpad drivers etc and tried some of the fixes mentioned on these forums but nothing seems to solve the problem, eg bios, chipset drivers...
Would it be a windows problem?
Is it worth taking the time to go through process of performing a clean boot and looking for a service not working, or a complete windows reinstall? or is it something I have not thought of???
Any help and ideas would be fantastic thanks :)

Can you start notebook in safe mode (F8 at start-up) and check if there is the same problem with touchpad and pointer?

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