How do I keep my mouse from leaving the window on FPS games?

Anonymous
2024-08-10T15:11:05+00:00

So, when I'm playing any FPS games (or games that use the mouse to track the game environment), my mouse cursor goes invisible. However, instead of being locked to the center of the screen, it moves around freely, to the point where i have accidently minimized or closed out of my game. Also worth mentioning, this is on a laptop, not a multiple screen PC.

Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated, as I've exhausted my sources of research and none of them helped.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-24T22:14:00+00:00

    I have new build gaming rig, runnign th elatest NVidoa drivers and regardless of whether the game is full screen exclusive or full screen windowed the mouse floats off onto the second monitor.

    Reading these scripted responses form so-called MS support boils my blood as most of the things they request just does nothing.

    One of the first posts said to disable all MS background process and all startup items... absoute rubbish. This is a Windows **** issue when using multiple monitors. Gaming windows are unable to become exclusive and lock in the mouse.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-25T02:38:39+00:00

    are you on windows 11? this is now happening to me but all I did was upgrade to windows 11. when I was on windows 10 it was great. I am temped to go back to windows 10 just for this reason.

    I wonder if it has something to do with copilot.

    hope there is a fix soon or I am going back to windows 10.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-27T12:27:45+00:00

    I was having the same problem and found another topic from 2021 with a solution that actually solved the issue:

    1. Press Win + R.
    2. Enter the command gpedit.msc and press enter.
    3. On the file to the left, search for Computer configuration ->Administrative models -> Windows components ->UI borders/edge
    4. Select the option "Allow to swipe finger on the edge" and open the edit box.
    5. Set it to "Disabled" and apply.

    At least for me, it is now working perfectly.

    Please note that I translated from Portuguese so the options might have a slightly different nomenclature.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-28T04:15:55+00:00

    I think if your advice is avoid the problem, instead of here's how you fix the problem, you haven't actually given an answer.

    So I'm playing Minecraft in windowed mode, and yesterday it was totally fine, but today my mouse has decided to drift onto the second screen, causing problems. Why does this happen? How do I fix it?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-03T23:55:27+00:00

    This worked perfectly. For those in English it looks more like:

    1. On the file to the left, search for Computer configuration ->Administrative Templates-> Windows components ->Edge UI
    2. Select the option "Allow edge swipe" and open the edit box.

    then the rest, but still easy enough instructions to make sense.

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