
Remove the “VMware Pointing Device” using “devmgmt.msc”
Somehow I have it happen every now and then on Windows (usually 8.1 x64) VMs running inside a VMware (usually Fusion) that the mouse cursor is stuck.
VMware Tools were already at the latest version and a plain reboot didn’t help.
It doesn’t matter if I was running full screen or Windows and altering these mouse settings did not change the behaviour:
Enable pointer shadow
Display pointer trails
(long or short: does not matter)
I did enable Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key
which then indicated the mouse pointer was static at the screen center.
The only thing to get the mouse respond to mouse movement were these steps:
- Start
Device Manager
using devmgmt.msc
- Switch to the
Devices by Connection
view from the View
menu
- Open these sub-trees:
- Your machine in this case my machine
W81ENTX64VS2015
ACPI x64-based PC
Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
PCI Bus
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode)
- Now delete the
VMware Pointing Device
- Reboot after
Device Manager
ask you to do so
After that my mouse cursor works fine.
Just in case you bump into a similar thing, but the above steps don’t help, here are some links with different steps that might work in your situation:
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