My mouse goes busy at a specific point on screen.

It's been fixed in Windows 11 22H2 update

You are a genius.

Thank you so much

Works a treat

Dear Mr. Microsoft apologist. The fix is not just for me it is for the entire community of users that depend on their devices to work correctly for their work. This bug as well as many others have been reported for a long time and MS is notorious for ignoring bugs forever. If they paid users for all the time we have wasted debugging their operating system they would go broke. Users that pay thousands for their devices should have the expectation that they will work as claimed and have a right to complain when that is not the case.

I did not say that the issue will not be fixed, perhaps you need to improve your reading skills. I did say the issue is not fixed and I stand by that. Just because you declare the issue fixed does not mean it is fixed, or is your name Bill Gates?

After reading most of the posts and trying all the suggested temporary "fixes", I got fed up and did something that appears to stave of this annoyance permanently. i am not going to say that this "resolves" this issue. I did these simple changes yesterday and the issue has not surfaced. Even after playing Asphalt 8 for hours (this usually triggers the issue for me in the past.)

This is what I did:

1. Click on the search icon in the task bar (thing that looks like a magnifying glass)
2. Click on the three dots in the upper right of box that comes up (options)
3. Click on search settings
4. Turn Safe Search "OFF"
5. Turn off "Work or School account"

That's it, no more annoying circle or having to reset Explorer.

Caveat: This is not a "FIX" for this problem and some persons may not like the idea of turning off these settings. So, that is totally your call. I truly hope the Microsoft people move their asses on this issue with a software patch that fixes it properly. This thing has been reported for months now and they don't seem to care.

Given that you say you tried this only yesterday I think it would be a little premature to say that the issue appears to be "staved off permanently". From what is written in these threads it seems people have varying experiences with this issue, from my own perspective this issue has only ever been an occasional annoyance and to be honest I haven't noticed it since I first posted in this thread on the 6th February this year. It could be that a recent update has already fixed the issue and what you're experiencing is just coincidence. I certainly don't believe 'Safe Search' or turning off 'Work or School account' has anything to do with this problem. What is certain is that the 'Search' pop-up menu in the taskbar is what causes the hidden active area. As someone else said; "it's as though the search pop-up doesn't always get drawn properly resulting in the hidden/invisible pop-up".

As I've mentioned several times above, according to one of the Microsoft insiders this issue has now been resolved so we can only sit and wait for the time being.

This has already been solved.

There are 2 temporary fixes while Microsoft get their act together.

1- Open Task manager, restart process "Explorer" or,

2- Open Task manager, end task "MiniSearchHost.exe" in the "Details" tab

You may have to repeat this from time to time.