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Helioswine
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VMware Player Mouse snaps to top left corner when clicking, typing, and highlighting using mouse.

Hello anyone,

I am currently running a Windows 8.1 host with VMware Player installed. For academic and self education purposes I am running two different guest operating systems (Server 2008 and Kali Linux) but not at the same time (if that matters). Quite simply I cannot seem to shake this mouse issue where it flies to the top left of the screen when I hold down the left mouse button (ie for highlighting, moving multiple objects on desktop) or type. When moving the mouse within the guest OS the pointer seems to flicker between the guest mouse and vmwares hand pointer. I tried unplugging my mouse and just using my laptop track pad but that doesn't fix the issue either. Also I have tried reinstalling the VM without the mouse plugged in but still experience the same issues. I am using a SeelSeries Sensei mouse and yes I have the steel series engine installed. I tried uninstalling the steelseries engine but that didn't fix it, updating the intellipoint software didn't work, and updating VMware tools hasn't worked, reinstalling vmware player after this hasn't worked either. I have been looking online for hours and looked at other solutions but they don't apply to me either (I think, the instructions didn't apply to my setup). It seems like mouse pointer issues are a common problem in vmware so if anyone knows of even a potential fix I would try it. Any help is appreciated, thank you.

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Helioswine
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Well nevermind, I unplugged my second monitor from my laptop and it instantly started working again! I will experiment around with this and see how it goes.

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