I have a mini PC connected to my TV with Windows 10. I "control" it with VNC. TightVNC is installed as a service on the PC. My client is Hippo LITE on iOS. This works fine when there is a mouse plugged into the PC (even though I don't use the mouse, but my VNC client). When there is no mouse device plugged in the pc, I cannot see a cursor. The cursor disappears as soon as the mouse is unplugged.
How can I keep the cursor when there is no mouse plugged in?
You can try turn on mouse keys feature (when it enabled mouse cursor always is always displayed):
So I did some testing, people have posted the correct solutions here but the order of operations makes a huge difference.
Firstly some points to get right:
There's kind of two ways to enable/disable Mouse Keys:
In the Settings panel ui:
Once Mouse Keys is enabled as shown above, you can enable/disable it with different key strokes depending on how Mouse Keys is setup:
To make things even more confusing the old-style Control Panel ui has some slightly different options. I accessed this panel by double-clicking on the Mouse Keys tray icon:
When enabling/disabling Mouse Keys use the newer Settings window, not the older Control Panel window. Checking the disable/enable checkbox in the old ui does not seem to work.
So in the following steps when I'm talking about disabling Mouse Keys, I mean method #1 in the Settings ui, not #2. You can tell if Mouse Keys is properly disabled when there's no tray icon for it anymore.
The next main thing to get is that the act of physically removing a mouse is what causes windows to hide the cursor. Even if you get the Mouse Keys config right, as soon as you physically unplug the mouse the cursor will probably disappear.
The only way to make it re-appear using Mouse Keys is to Disable -> Re-Enable the entire Mouse Keys system, ie method #1 above. Just toggling it with Num-Lock won't work.
The trick is this has to be done after you've unplugged your mouse.
So:
You can use tab and arrow keys to navigate to the correct ui without a mouse. Once you've highlighted the Mouse Keys On/Off toggle use spacebar to toggle on/off.
I've tested all given answers, however, the real solution (tested on a clean setup) is:
ms-settings:tabletmode -> Select "Take me to the desktop/desktop mode" & "Don't ask me and don't switch"control access.cpl -> "Make the mouse easier to use" -> Turn on "Mouse Keys box"Try disconnecting your mouse, it should now keep visible :)
Install Mouse without borders from Microsoft. You don't need to link it with another computer, click skip.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35460
How to Fix Mouse Disappearing Issue?
To fix mouse pointer disappearing issue, step-by-step instructions given below should be followed:
1.Log with the administrator account.
2.Click Desktop tile from the Start screen to go the desktop window.
3.Once on the desktop screen, hover mouse to the bottom right corner.
4.From the displayed options, click Settings.
5.From the Settings pane, click Control Panel.
6.On Control Panel window, click Hardware and Sound category.
7.On Hardware and Sound window, click Mouse under Devices and Printers category form the right pane.
8.On the displayed Mouse Properties box, go to Pointer Options tab.
9.On the selected tab, uncheck Hide pointer while typing checkbox under Visibility section.
10.Once done, click OK to save the modified changes.
11.Close Hardware and Sound window when done.
Taken From: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1656322/windows-mouse-cursor-disappearing.html
I ran into the same problem, and found an easy solution on another forum:
Quote : "I know its old, but it is still coming up in google searches.. Enabling Mouse Keys worked for me. I am on win 8.1 Just went to the start menu, typed in mouse > down aarowed to the Ease of Access mouse> tabbed twice to the settings and flipped the switch for "Use numeric keypad to move mouse around screen" and voila, it worked."
Origin forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/input-director/cO4LH8UjxFc
Screenshot windows 10 : Mouse accessibility options
Work quick and easy for me =)
Cheers !
If you already enabled Mouse Keys, try to disable and re-enable it after unplugging the mouse. Works for me.
If it's a PS/2 mouse, you MUST power off the computer completely to get the mouse back. (Make sure it's plugged in, of course). If it's USB, then unplugging it and plugging it back in may work... or you can try a different USB port if it doesn't. (Plugging into a new port usually forces Windows to reinstall the driver).
