The scroll wheel icon gets stuck on the screen in Window 7

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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).

Picture of my problem.

get52

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 283

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Does this help? http://superuser.com/questions/473325/disable-scrolling-icon

– goelakash – 2016-07-05T06:49:55.330

^^^ This approach worked for me. Disabling the scrolling cursor is a quick fix, if you have registry editing permissions. – Duncan Jones – 2017-09-11T11:40:19.777

and My mouse is there, it's just like a ghost of my previus mouse stuck on my screen. – get52 – 2014-04-13T02:18:14.937

Answers

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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.

Priyank Agr

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 161

Didn't solve it for me – Datoraki – 2017-10-22T09:34:44.283

1i switched to a new theme, then back to the original and it solved the issue for me. Running windows 10. – 2b77bee6-5445-4c77-b1eb-4df3e5 – 2017-11-25T17:58:06.270

@2b77bee6-5445-4c77-b1eb-4df3e5 I also had success switching to Windows Basic and back in Windows 7 – gkubed – 2018-04-11T16:00:48.287

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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):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings-winpc/touchpad-scroll-icon-stuck-on-screen-after-windows/cfb19413-a853-471c-9087-a0c2cf979068

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.     

Datoraki

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 141

Note that you need to reboot before this solution works - it's not totally clear in the link. This other link is more clear: https://www.andreafortuna.org/lenovo/windows-10-fix-two-finger-scrolling-issue-for-synaptics-touchpads/

– Neo – 2018-05-22T21:08:27.847

No need to reboot, just Log-Off and Log-In. It worked for me on Windows 10. Be aware that after applying this change you lose the scroll feedback cursor icons for both vertical and horizontal scrolling. – Simón – 2019-12-17T12:50:25.703

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Try Ctrl+scroll(tried two fingers in my case)

Sandbox992

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 31

1How would that help? – Pierre.Vriens – 2018-12-06T17:28:04.873

This worked for me. Ctrl + sliding two fingers on the touchpad. – Sven Nilsson – 2019-09-23T15:42:57.067

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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.

Luc He

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 11

1You might need to be converted to a comment, feel free to flag a mod and ask for this to be done until you earn enough rep to write comments... this is an easy and simple task too by the way. – Pimp Juice IT – 2017-05-08T12:13:26.163

1Feels like an answer to me, even though it's written in a comment style. – Duncan Jones – 2017-09-11T11:32:47.967

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This happens for me when, in the same time, I scroll with the Touchpad and 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

  1. In Process Hacker, search for syntpenh
  2. Right-click SynTPEnh.exe
  3. Select restart

It's not a permanent fix, but it works.

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If you don't have Process Hacker and you don't want to install it:

  1. Open Task Manager, find Synaptics TouchPad, right-click and select open file location
  2. Go back in Task Manager, right click the same process Synaptics TouchPad and select End Task
  3. Go in the file explorer windows opened in step 1 and double click SynTPEnh.exe

MagTun

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 746

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This is Windows 10 manual:

  1. Press Windows logo.
  2. Type "Mouse".
  3. Click offered "Mouse settings".
  4. Right side of screen blue lettered click "Additional mouse options".
  5. In the new window find from the top options "Pointers".
  6. In the centre of window find and click "Use Default".
  7. On button click "Apply".

Is it working?

Tomas Konopasek

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 1

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I found one solution (it's probably not the best)

  1. Press the Windows button
  2. Type "Mouse"
  3. Click "Change Mouse Pointer Size"
  4. Make your mouse bigger
  5. Make your mouse your original size again
  6. The mouse should now be normal

I don't think this is permanent either

Vetlix

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 1

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reinstall the drivers for your "mouse" and/or pointing devices.

Matej

Posted 2014-04-13T02:17:37.667

Reputation: 11

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