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 questions I've seen here, it just has the extra bar on the left side.

weird cursor

Changing pointer theme to Windows Black or turning on pointer trails gets rid of it, but I don't really want to use a workaround.

I've tried

restarting (because it fixes a lot more things than it should, eh?) Didn't work.
reconnecting the tablet and undoing all my settings changes (I'd set the pen input area to only my first display, and turned off 'press and hold' because it was getting in the way of drawing). Didn't work.
shifting windows between the two displays. The cursor is specific to only the second display.
checking for driver updates, my mouse and tablet drivers are up to date.
disconnecting/reconnecting the second display. Didn't work.

The funny thing is I've used that tablet (an old Wacom CTE-640) on this machine before and I've never encountered this problem.

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

Seyren

Posted 2012-02-09T07:46:26.393

Reputation: 338

http://superuser.com/questions/375266/my-mouse-icon-is-messed-on-my-computer#comment420121_375266 Check out this question, it is probably a very similar occurance. – Psycogeek – 2012-02-09T08:45:33.217

No luck, I don't even have the Synaptics software installed ;) I need to go home, I've uninstalled SetPoint (Logitech's mouse software), let's see what happens tomorrow. – Seyren – 2012-02-09T10:39:12.620

uninstalling the software itself might have been a bit drastic :-) originally i was thinking more along the lines of finding the offending curser grafic and changing it, or matching the grafics of the same size? or there was taking cursers out of hardware acceleration (back in xp) . – Psycogeek – 2012-02-09T21:40:33.463

It was most of the cursors except the pointer, but the pointer had it in browser windows and not on VS2010. Weird, huh? Anyway the problem is gone, I'll now try installing the new version of SetPoint. Honestly I don't really think SetPoint was the problem though. – Seyren – 2012-02-10T01:33:10.197

1SetPoint reinstalled, no problem. I don't think it was SetPoint. – Seyren – 2012-02-10T06:56:55.737

Answers

I've seen this suddenly occur on rotated monitors. Setting the rotation to normal and then setting it back to 90 degrees seems to resolve it.

Stuart

Posted 2012-02-09T07:46:26.393

Reputation: 136

This really worked! I can't believe this doesn't have more upvotes... – dance2die – 2014-08-27T15:28:22.373

Rotating the other display made the situation inverse: now to cursor shows correct on the previously wrong screen and vice versa. Setting both monitors back to normal rotation again changes the cursor back. Still a weird cursor on the primary screen. – MikkoP – 2016-05-13T15:59:08.440

I didn't think to mention that my monitor was rotated! Changing the answer to this since it fits the conditions and doesn't require disabling anything. – Seyren – 2014-05-21T01:30:42.487

Disable pointer shadow within the cursor menu. I was having the same issue and this seemed to fix the artifact on the second window.

RecentlyThawed

Posted 2012-02-09T07:46:26.393

Reputation: 71

This problem suddenly appeared when using a rotated 2nd monitor. Removing the mouse shadow from mouse settings solved it. – Heather Stark – 2015-04-29T10:49:26.187

I've never been able to reproduce the issue - I guess I'll mark this as the answer since it worked for you. Thanks! – Seyren – 2013-12-05T01:01:33.477

1Awesome. I changed up my monitors so side one is portrait flipped and there were artifacts (lines showing up) under the mouse pointer. Unticking enable shadow fixed it for me. Thanks! – Chris K – 2014-04-16T21:10:51.643

This worked for me:

Go to Control Panel and select Mouse Properties
Under the "Pointers" Tab, change the "Scheme" to any other scheme and click apply.
Let the new settings apply and move your mouse around. The cursor should be fine now.
If you want the original scheme, go back into Mouse Properties -> Pointers -> "Scheme", select the original scheme you had, and click apply.

Just Helping

Posted 2012-02-09T07:46:26.393

Reputation: 1

-1

Below steps should work in most of the cases and both with Win 10 or Win 7.

Press WindowsKey + U
Go the magnifier from the left menu
Set the zoom to 100%
Minimize the magnifier window and let it run
The magnifier application needs to be running

Abhishek Kotecha

Posted 2012-02-09T07:46:26.393

Reputation: 1

This doesn’t explain what the character in question is – Ramhound – 2018-04-04T11:45:47.103