Newcomer / Intro Technical Issue

[Funeral]

So I'm unsure whether it's the game or my own computer, and I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this issue or might have some pointers in how I can troubleshoot or fix it.
Windows 7

Basically every 5-10 minutes of gameplay, at random, the screen will go black and I'll be returned to my desktop briefly with the game still running, and then back to the game, but when I'm back in the game my pointer is now a normal mouse pointer, and clicking at all acts as if I'm clicking on my desktop, so it re-exits the game with it still running in the background, and if I click anywhere else on the desktop, it just goes back into the game doing the same disconnected-mouse-pointer again.
The only way I have of getting back into the game for the time being without issue is clicking on the running Elite Dangerous program icon on the bottom toolbar itself.
But it's just a matter of time before this happens again, and I've died at least twice from crashing since it's not exactly a safe thing to just 'let go of the controls' while frame shifting into the sun.

I'm not sure if it's some sort of background service that could be causing it, or some driver issue, or a problem with the game or the graphics card.
Super frustrating, anyone else run into this?

 

[Out2lunch]

Sounds like a graphics card issue to me.

What card have you got?
What version of drivers?
Have you updated them recently?
What's your processor?

There is an issue with latest and driver on the latest cards, or so ive heard, and don't run beta drivers.

 

[Dogoncrook]

Try something like Razer gamebooster and have it disable everything running in the background and see if it still happens. There are so many things it could be it's gonna be hard to pin down, but if it works you can play in the meantime and slowly isolate which program is causing it. Also when it does pull you to desktop is alt+enter not removing the desktop pointer?

 

[DBCloggy]

I have experience a similar problem, but everytime I clicked on the E : D Icon is popped up then went back to desktop. This appears to have stopped since I updated my Nvidia drivers.