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When moving a window from one monitor to another in Windows 10, the mouse will get stuck at the monitor border. This can be overcome when moving the mouse faster. It would be nice to disable this behavior, while retaining other snap features.

This appears to be a similar issue reported here. Current responses seem to focus on understanding and accepting the "feature". This is not the same issue as sticky corners.

General suggestions include disabling snap completely, under:

  • ControlPanel/System/Multitasking/Snap winddows:off

This does work, but it also removes the ability to use the snap hotkeys (win+arrow, which I would like to retain.

  • Set the value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\EdgeUi\MouseMonitorEscapeSpeed

This registry setting did not remove the behavior I was seeing.

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With more research I found this post by Matt Breedlove. Deep in windows's documentation he discovered a reference to DockTargetMouseWidth, which when set as shown below, does fix this behavior.

It can be added via command line, as show belown, or via registry edit program (win+r: regedit)

reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Mouse" /v DockTargetMouseWidth /t REG_DWORD /d 0

With this registry entry set, the border of monitors no longer stick and the shortcut win+arrow_key continues to work for shortkey window snapping. It would be great if Microsoft added an option to disable this feature, as they've done for snap settings.

Multitasking Snap Menu

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