Mouse stickiness change with multiple monitors after Windows 8.1 Update 1: Bug or feature?

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• Windows 8.1
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28650 views Mouse stickiness change with multiple monitors after Windows 8.1 Update 1: Bug or feature?

PhamAP asked on

There is a new bug that won't let the mouse to the other screen unless you move the mouse quickly across the monitor edge. Before, this would only happen on the corner edges to allow easier access to the charms and apps bar. Now, it happens to the whole edge.

These four videos demonstrate that the mouse stickiness issue happens in both desktop and metro mode and that it is inconsistent - only happening sometimes. I hope these videos help paint a clear picture of what is going on.

Desktop Mode

http://youtu.be/-0mrPXXtkfw

 No bug

http://youtu.be/3TVYvu4Yi5g

 Bug

Metro Applications

http://youtu.be/hOEeo9r0xs8

 No bug

http://youtu.be/b-Usdhnvl3A

 Bug

Is this issue already known and will there be a hotfix, or is this a new feature?

November 12th 2014 Update

Mouse stickiness still a problem as of today for Windows 8.1. As of Windows 10 Build 9879 which was released today, the mouse stickiness is fixed! This mouse stickiness only happens when dragging a window around and is used to assist in snapping windows. Outside of this, the stickiness issue is gone! I think this was what Microsoft intended to do with the mouse stickiness, but I believe it was a hard bug to diagnose, but they finally fixed it!

November 2nd 2014 Update

Mouse stickiness still a problem as of today for Windows 8.1. As of Build 9860 of Windows 10 Technical Preview, the mouse stickiness bug/feature has started happening.

June 9th 2014 Update

Still no official word from Microsoft. I have found a fix, but it is more of a workaround. Just don't use any metro apps, and it should be fine. Very rarely you will get the stickiness again. If it does occur anyways just press WIN + P and click Duplicate. After all monitors are duplicated, press WIN + P again and then click Extend to go back, and the mouse stickiness issue should be gone.

May 16th 2014 Update

According to Shawn "Cmdr" Keene \[MVP\] at the end of page 2, this is NOT a bug and it is an intentional design. Ihope that Shawn is incorrect and would like further verification by an employee of the Windows development team.

There is also a "fix" by editing some registry values, but this removes the mouse stickiness on the corners and makes it very hard to access the apps and charms bar in between monitors. I do not believe this is a fix to the problem.

May 5th 2014 Update

Still no word from Microsoft that this is a bug or feature.

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I found the Problem.

It was the polling rate of the mouse!

At 1000Hz is was hard to get to the next window, while dragging a window,

at 250Hz it is perfekt for me. 

Hope it helps you :)

Found the solution: 

http://winaero.com/blog/fix-mouse-pointer-sticks-on-the-edge-when-moving-between-multiple-monitors/

The gadgets from sides or  "configuration menu" is gone, for me is perfectly fine , hate metro.

It's a feature as outlined in this article:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/21/enhancing-windows-8-for-multiple-monitors.aspx

"A multi-monitor setup brings the major benefit of more real estate, but it also lacks the Fitts' Law benefits of hard edges and corners across displays. While it’s extremely easy to trigger corner UI such as Start, charms, or recently used apps on a single monitor, it isn’t uncommon to overshoot the mouse when the corner appears on a shared edge on a multi-monitor configuration.

With multiple monitors in fact, targeting the shared edge can be downright difficult. Move a few pixels too far and your cursor is suddenly on the wrong monitor. This has been a common challenge in previous versions of Windows as well, like when you’re trying to hit the close button or scroll bars on a maximized window on a shared edge. Many work around this by remembering to move the mouse slowly as it approaches a shared edge or by avoiding window layouts that bump up against those edges. We commonly observe this behavior in our own usage and in field studies.

In the Release Preview, we’re introducing an improved model for shared edges that makes it easier to target UI along a shared edge.

Since corners are even more important for Windows 8, we’ve created real corners along the shared edges to mimic the Fitts’ Law advantages of a single monitor. The red corners in the diagram below demonstrate how these corners can help guide your mouse..."

Hello, 

These are all non-answers.

And why is a monologue post voted as the most helpful?

This "feature" is ANNOYING.

I never use Metro apps. This is computer and needs a computer OS; not this Windows 8.1 Pro Tablet  Hipster Metro Interface OS. 50% or more Windows users STILL use computers not tablets to get work done.

I have a laptop and three large external monitors.  Anytime I move the mouse between them I must wiggle the mouse back and forth several times to get it across the sticking threshold.

Sometimes it works if I go very fast, but that's inconsistent.

Here are some answers (solutions), which all involve registry editing*:

Thank god Microsoft doesn't own Google, or we'd never find the answers to this (based on Microsoft's massive response to this thread).

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/49401-sticky-edges-multi-monitors-enable-disable.html

http://superuser.com/questions/498576/how-to-disable-sticky-corners-in-windows-8

http://winaero.com/blog/fix-mouse-pointer-sticks-on-the-edge-when-moving-between-multiple-monitors/

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/mouse-pointer-sticks-at-edge-windows

* Regsitry Editing: Why The Fish can't Microsoft make this an on/off feature when looking at multiple monitor settings?

Total Tangent: Why did Microsoft cripple COMPUTER users with a tablet interface OS? Why not make Windows 8.x for computers and Windows 8.x T (for Tablets)? This would let COMPUTER users/workers skip the entire Metro interface BS.

I've been a Microsoft user since Dos 3.0 and have literally used every Windows version since the beginning. I'm a developer and I bought an iPad Air for testing apps. I wish I'd been using Apple all these years instead of paying for one of Bill's Mercedes.