My Windows 7 install has a strange problem where sometimes the scroll wheel icon for the mouse gets stuck on the screen.
It's hard to explain in words, so here's a picture (it's in the blank space on the right side, halfway down the screen).
My Windows 7 install has a strange problem where sometimes the scroll wheel icon for the mouse gets stuck on the screen.
It's hard to explain in words, so here's a picture (it's in the blank space on the right side, halfway down the screen).
Click start button > Type "Mouse". Now go to the pointer tab , Click on the arrow under "Schemes" and apply "Windows Aero(System Scheme)". Finally uncheck the box in front of "allow themes to change mouse pointer" .
This should work for you.
Unchecking "allow themes to change mouse pointer" did not work for me. What did work on the other hand was the following solution (for Synaptics touch pads):
run regedit, navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh in left pane, right click SynTPEnh, select New/DWORD Value. Name of the new key should be writable, Name it: UseScrollCursor , value should be zeros at default, no need to change (in my case). (Credit: Mr JGR)
Then I rebooted my computer and the icon was gone.
Try Ctrl+scroll(tried two fingers in my case)
This happens for me when, I scroll with the Touchpad at the same time, that I move my mouse around (but only on specific softwares).
None of the permanent fixes above worked for me (Windows 10) (adding UseScrollCursor
in regedit + changing shceme) but I can at least remove the stuck icons, each time it happens, by restarting the process SynTPEnh.exe
in Process Hacker
syntpenh
It's not a permanent fix, but it works.
If you don't have Process Hacker and you don't want to install it:
Synaptics TouchPad
, right-click and select open file locationSynaptics TouchPad
and select End Task
SynTPEnh.exe
I have the same issue but I didn't have "Allow themes to change mouse pointer" checked. So I uncheck "Enable Pointer Shadow" and it works.
This is Windows 10 manual:
Is it working?
I found one solution (it's probably not the best)
I don't think this is permanent either