When your Windows 8.1 mouse cursor is invisible in the screen center on VMware Fusion
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/02
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 shadowDisplay 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 Managerusingdevmgmt.msc - Switch to the
Devices by Connectionview from theViewmenu - Open these sub-trees:
- Your machine in this case my machine
W81ENTX64VS2015 ACPI x64-based PCMicrosoft ACPI-Compliant SystemPCI BusIntel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode)
- Your machine in this case my machine
- Now delete the
VMware Pointing Device - Reboot after
Device Managerask 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:
- VMWare Invisible Mouse Pointer – Super User [WayBack]
- Setting
mks.noHostCursor = "TRUE"in your VM configuration [YouTube] - Set
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableCursorSuppression=0as per
–jeroen
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
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