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I am currently working on Windows 10. When I press the regular direction keys on my keyboard, my cursor moves in the direction I am pressing. I would like my cursor not to move when I press the direction keys. How can I stop this behavior?

I have tried various methods like rebooting, checking mouse function but all in vain. I know this question has been asked before but like in that it was given to close microsoft paint but in my case only chrome is opened. So can u please suggest some methods to stop this behavior? enter image description here

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  • The direction keys on my keyboard(s) have zero impact on the mouse function. Do you have a special keyboard? Have you tried an upgraded Mouse Driver?
    – anon
    Commented Jan 8, 2021 at 3:06
  • @John No I don't have any special keyboard and my mouse driver is updated to the latest version.
    – Jitendra Singh
    Commented Jan 8, 2021 at 3:32
  • Scrolling a web page in Chrome with the arrow keys is normal behavior if the cursor focus in not in a actual text field. What are you trying to do in Chrome with the arrow keys? Have you observed this behavior in other apps?
    – Blaelph
    Commented Jan 8, 2021 at 4:23
  • if you will click on image description here in the question you can see that I opened a random chrome page. Now I wanted to go down so I pressed down key but now the text cursor is going down and it takes time and frustrates me. Before Search only for regr you can see the text cursor. What I want is that when I click the down button the page should go down not the text cursor neither the text cursor should come
    – Jitendra Singh
    Commented Jan 8, 2021 at 4:26
  • Try using the Page Down key to move the window down instead of the down arrow key when the text cursor is in a text field. It might be abbreviated to PgDn on your keyboard. It's near PgUp, Home and End.
    – Blaelph
    Commented Jan 8, 2021 at 5:19

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Because the above didnt solve it this for me, here's my solution: this is happening because you clicked F7 at some point and turned on caret browsing.

Press F7 again to disable caret browsing and the problem will go away.

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  • This is the correct answer. By mistake I pressed F7 and facing the problem. Thanks to you, solved my problem scrolling webpage.
    – MAS
    Commented Jan 8 at 10:28
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In Chrome, you can use the PgDn key to scroll the page if the text cursor is in a text field, preventing you from scrolling the page with the ArrowDown key.

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