How to snap mouse pointer across multiple screens?

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If you have multiple screens and want to snap your mouse pointer to a screen with a shortcut key (rather than scrolling over to it, which can take a while if you have a lot of pixels to cover) is there a reliable way to do this in Windows 10?

Google has not been forthcoming...
 
spiff said:
I used to use "mousewithoutborders.msi" it was a microsoft little app - worked brilliantly. not sure about win10
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That's to use the same peripherals across multiple machines, don't think that has a snap between windows? And yes, it definitely works with Win10.

EDIT: @hj2k_x do you want it so the mouse moves to the active window? Can use alt-tab to active window and use this to center your mouse in the active window
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/p/mousepointerreposition/9ncz1p9hpwfh?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

(Source code is here: https://github.com/rhinterndorfer/MousePointerReposition if you don't want to pay)
 
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Johnatan56 said:
That's to use the same peripherals across multiple machines, don't think that has a snap between windows? And yes, it definitely works with Win10.

EDIT: @hj2k_x do you want it so the mouse moves to the active window? Can use alt-tab to active window and use this to center your mouse in the active window
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/p/mousepointerreposition/9ncz1p9hpwfh?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

(Source code is here: https://github.com/rhinterndorfer/MousePointerReposition if you don't want to pay)
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Ok ya. That's kind of what I'm looking for...

Costa 17 bucks, that app
 
hj2k_x said:
Ok ya. That's kind of what I'm looking for...

Costa 17 bucks, that app
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If you want to use the github repo, download it, install MSBuild and then open a shell as admin and navigate to the root (where the .sln file is) and run `msbuild MousePointerReposition.sln` which should put an MousePointerReposition.exe in /MousePointerReposition/bin/Release/<some folder name, either Debug, Release, Build>/, run that. If you want to transfer it between machines, you only need to transfer the folder in Release.


(MSBuild is packaged with "tools for Visual studio": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/?q=build+tools )
 
Johnatan56 said:
If you want to use the github repo, download it, install MSBuild and then open a shell as admin and navigate to the root (where the .sln file is) and run `msbuild MousePointerReposition.sln` which should put an MousePointerReposition.exe in /MousePointerReposition/bin/Release//, run that. If you want to transfer it between machines, you only need to transfer the folder in Release.


(MSBuild is packaged with "tools for Visual studio": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/?q=build+tools )
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Thanks

For now, I've gone oldskool: I've made the mouse pointer as fast as Windows will allow, changed the colour to red so I can see it better on whatever screen it happens to be, and added a trailing tail to it, like its 1995 :)
 
hj2k_x said:
Thanks

For now, I've gone oldskool: I've made the mouse pointer as fast as Windows will allow, changed the colour to red so I can see it better on whatever screen it happens to be, and added a trailing tail to it, like its 1995 :)
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Just enable the show location when hit ctrl key?
 
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