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How can I make the mouse cursor render with software instead of hardware?
I use a program called f.lux to change the display color. However, the color does not affect the mouse: leaving it an ugly bright white. A partial fix is to set the registry value of mouse trails to -...
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Touchpad response badly when connecting monitor
When I connect my laptop to a monitor through the HDMI connection, I have a hard time controlling the mouse using the touchpad.
I'll try to explain as best as I can:
The touchpad works perfectly ...
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How do I change all of the cursors on my PC, not just the ones in customize settings in Windows 10 (Home)?
OS: Windows 10 Home
I know how to do the basic customization of the cursor, I have changed all of that. what I want now is to customize all the rest of the cursors, like grab, zoom-in, and especially ...
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What does the "Hide pointer while typing" feature actually do?
I'm curious about this feature, which has been part of Windows for as long as I can remember. Maybe even Windows 95 or 98.
To me, it means exactly what it says. The mouse cursor should become ...
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Where do I configure the default text selection behavior in Windows?
(eg. mouse click selects entire word vs. mouse click inserts an active cursor)
I find the mouse click behavior of Windows XP and Windows 7 annoying and intrusive. I don't remember Windows NT being ...
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Is it possible to disable click > highlight > "accidentals" character swap in Windows?
I have been wanting to ask this for so long and it just finally got to me.
Have you ever been coding or typing and needed to click on a portion of text to highlight it and as you begin to do so, for ...
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Mouse Icon Distorted on Secondary Display
I have a strange issue with a dual monitor, extended desktop setup where the mouse is always fine on the primary monitor, but sometimes when I move to the secondary display the icon becomes garbled ...
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On Windows can I change the mouse cursor icon when I'm pressing the left mouse button?
You might have noticed on some video games that the cursor changes when the left or right mouse buttons are being pressed. Can I do this on regular windows? I know that in Control panel -> Mouse -&...
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How to duplicate mouse cursor movement and clicks on windows?
Basicly what I'm trying to achieve is when moving my mouse I want to have second cursor duplicating everything I'm doing with my mouse ideally on second monitor or at least in second window or maybe ...
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My mouse cursor is not moving
So today whilst i was doing something on the laptop my mouse started to act weird. The cursor wouldnt stopped at random times for like 2 seconds.
But now my cursor doesnt even move! I checked the back ...
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Mouse properties are corrupted
In Windows 7, whenever I hover over things, the mouse automatically selects items or follows last item in the page without me clicking.
In mouse properties settings when I clicked Pointers option in ...
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I can click with a mouse but not move a cursor
It happened suddenly. I have not installed anything new on my PC.
I restarted it and then my mouse seems not to work.
The cursor was in the middle of the screen and it was invisible.
I was not able to ...
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Strange Photoshop Problem: Can not select, zoom, paint, option button 'locked'
I have a very strange problem with Photoshop. I can not use any of the tools, since the cursor appears 'locked'. If I select v on my keyboard, it goes to the zoom tool, but the cursor does not change. ...
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Wired mouse cursor moving extremely slow
I have a wired HP mouse that has been working fine for many months with my laptop. Suddenly the cursor started moving extremely slow. I have read other online articles on this issue but nothing seems ...
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Windows 10 Mouse Randomly Stops Working
having an issue with a new PC whereby the mouse randomly stops working.
When it stops working it has the following:
Cursor shows on screen.
Mouse laser/light still on.
However it cannot move or ...
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The scroll wheel icon gets stuck on the screen in Window 7
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 ...
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`MouseMove A_ScreenWidth, A_ScreenHeight` loses precision
Quote from the documentation:
A_ScreenWidth, A_ScreenHeight: The width and height of the primary monitor, in pixels (e.g. 1024 and 768).
I expected the following code to move the cursor tip at the ...
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Oculus as normal window 10 mouse
Seems the handheld device of Oculus VR is called oculus touch.
Is there any way to use the oculus touch as a win10 mouse? (it is fine to switch on the headset）
So when I swing the device in the air, ...
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Increasing the mouse pointer size for a tutorial video
I am running Windows 10. I would like to make a video tutorial by recording my screen. To do this well, I think my mouse pointer should be more noticeable than it is at its default size and color. ...
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VMWare: always show host cursor
Is there a way to force vmware to show host mouse pointer? I mean that I want to see always 2 pointers host and guest.
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Is there a way to rotate mouse movement with 45 degrees to the right? [duplicate]
Recently I got an ergonomic mouse (Delux M618 https://www.amazon.com/Delux-M618LU-Vertical-Ergonomic-Comfort/dp/B00D19KF7U). Trouble is due to the shape, the way my hand feels most comfortable holding ...
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Why doesn't my custom mouse cursor load after restart?
I have created a new personal preferences profile in Windows 7 which cycles my background pictures from a custom folder location and changed my mouse cursor. When I save this profile and activate it, ...
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Mouse cursor moving in a square
I tried using my wireless mouse yesterday (which wasn't used for roughly 2 months) on my desktop, and i noticed that i couldn't move it in any way, i could just press the two right and left buttons. ...
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Multiple cursors in Microsoft Word
A really useful feature in TextMate is multiple cursors, as described in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqc5EdZmpmQ
Are multiple cursors possible in Microsoft Word?
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How to adjust a custom mouse cursors click position in windows 10
I made a custom mouse cursor (a simple semi-transparent circle to look like a touch position instead of a cursor), and set windows to use it by selecting it in the mouse settings, however the position ...
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Weird cursor on second display only
After using a tablet for a while and disconnecting it, this weird extra artifact has appeared beside my cursor, but only on my second display. The cursor doesn't distort like mentioned in other ...
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Enable software cursor in x11
I am using XVFB to create a virtual screen buffer on my headless virtual machine. I noticed that XVFB is not by default rendering a mouse so I am trying to enable a software rendered mouse to get the ...
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Is it possible for the mouse to influence the cursor?
A user i just visited had a cursor that was weirdly distorted - it looked like someone merged the standard cursor with the text marking "I" cursor.
Someone said i should have tried swapping the mouse....
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What's causing my window drag delay?
I have a strange issue: When I drag a window on its title bar with the cursor, nothing happens - the window stays there for a while until some time or cursor movement. In other words, there is some ...
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How to stop my mouse cursor from going out of the screen?
I have just bought a new PC. It uses a SyncMaster E2020 20 inch monitor. The weird thing is my cursor can disappear(go out of the screen) if I move it over the right or/and bottom edge. Is is very ...
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How do I create a second mouse cursor on Surface 3 (not pro)
I would like one cursor for my touch pad / external mouse, and a second one for the touch screen, both operating independently of one another.
I use both simultaneously quite often and am irritated ...
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Mouse curser gets "weird" when I move it between different monitors
I'm using a Windows 7 64-bit machine with two monitors side by side.
Sometimes when I have a fullsreen application running on my main monitor and I am moving the mouse curser between the two monitors,...
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Change default mouse cursor on OSX Mavericks
Is there any way to change the default mouse cursor on OSX Mavericks?
More precisely, I'd like to make it look like in windows, and even more precisely I want to move the 'point' where the mouse ...
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Mouse cursor randomly moving
I have this strange problem with mouse cursor moving slightly in all possible directions. I run a Win10 machine and it only seems to happen if I'm connected to the internet. I thought it could be a ...
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Use 2 Mouse Cursors on the same Computer
I understand that questions like this have being answered before, however mine is slightly different.
Basically I run automated tests which mean that the mouse cursor is moving around the screen ...
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Mouse disappears after unlocking/waking after Windows 10 upgrade
Ok, thus far, I haven't been able to find my specific issue online, so I'm turning to you guys.
I recently upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10 (pro). Sometimes (not every time) when I unlock or wake up ...
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Mouse Freeze and Help window auto launch
I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop. I am facing a unique problem here. My laptop mouse pointer will freeze automatically accompanied by auto launch of the help screen of the application i am viewing at ...
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How can I make it easier to use the mouse to expand column widths?
It seems like anytime I want to click between columns to expand them I end up miss clicking and dragging the column instead of expanding it. I've been told by an old friend that this is because the ...
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The mouse pointer in my Ubuntu VM has turned into a little hand with a document, and clicks are ignored. How do I get out of this mode?
The mouse pointer in my Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS VM (running in VMware Fusion) has changed into a little hand holding a document. It doesn't show up in screen-shots.
All mouse clicks (left or right) are ...
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Windows text-select cursor randomly doubled in length, makes selecting text quickly very difficult
I was writing some code today when suddenly the length of my text select cursor doubled. I figured it was some weird glitch so I restarted my computer but it didn't affect anything. I checked in my ...
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How to disable sticky corners in Windows 10? [duplicate]
My question is the same as this one : How to disable sticky corners in Windows 8?
But I didn't find the values to change in the registry.
Any idea how to fix this on Windows 10 ?
edit : I tried this ...
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Logitech Mouse cursor shakes, whilst a cheaper brand doesn't?
I have a Sweex MI612 (cheap laser mouse) and a Logitech M705 (somewhat less cheaper laser mouse). But when using the Logitech mouse, I get a shaking cursor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOeISlWloA
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Mouse will not appear on monitor 2
I have 3 monitors set up on a lap top docking station. One of the screens is the laptop and 2 additional monitors. All 3 are working, I think but I can't get the mouse pointer on the 2nd screen
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Dual monitors -- Control from which edge the cursor appears at
Let me explain better. I have dual monitors. When I move my mouse toward the right edge on my primary monitor and then move it over the edge, the mouse appears on the left edge on the second monitor ...
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How to make my mouse go faster?
I had an old Omega mouse. A really cheap one and it got broken. Now I bought an Elephant 2000 DPI mouse and it is going really really slow. Almost half the speed of my other mouse. I checked ...
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Windows 8: Occasional cursor movement, clicks, and interface interaction without a mouse or touch pad attached
My cursor is moving (it'll go in a direction, turn, etc, not totally random) and clicking (left and right) without any mouse or touch pad attached.
I've uploaded a video of the weird behavior
I've ...
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Why, on Windows, does the scroll speed increase when moving the cursor horizontally?
I've found that if I'm selecting text, cells in Excel, etc. by clicking & dragging, and moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen it scrolls automatically and has a constant speed. If I move ...
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How to solve jumping mouse cursor event?
I have Windows 7 32 bit installed recently in my HP Pavillion laptop. Before this version, I used another Windows 7 32bit version. During that time, there was no problem with my mouse cursor. but this ...
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Operate mouse by drawn paths?
Can I set my mouse to follow a path? Not a recorded path but a drawn path? (with anchor points and handles) Better yet can I make it click at certain intervals?
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Camtasia, record around the mouse
How to record video only around the mouse cursor and when the mouse moves then follow it?
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