Office workers with cheaper mice and anyone using a laptop’s touchpad may want to leave it enabled. It’s worth experimenting with this setting, depending on your mouse hardware and what you’re doing. However, it can make you less precise with your mouse because it’s harder to anticipate exactly how far your cursor will move and build up the necessary mouse memory, particularly if you’re moving it quickly. This can help you when trying to precisely select small things on the screen. In other words, with Enhance Pointer Precision enabled, your mouse cursor moves farther when you move your mouse faster, and your cursor moves a smaller distance when you move your mouse slower-even if you move your mouse the same distance. With it on, the speed you move your mouse also matters. With it off, the only thing that controls how far your cursor moves is the distance you move your physical mouse. That’s because this feature is a form of mouse acceleration. It can make your pointer more precise in some situations-but it can make you less precise in others. The “Enhance Pointer Precision” setting in Windows is poorly understood. RELATED: What Is 'Enhance Pointer Precision' in Windows?
Toggle Enhance Pointer Precision Off or On
