I have a Wacom digitizer with pen and Windows 7. Whenever I push down with the pen on the digitizer plate to click, Windows shows a "ripple" effect (an expanding, semi-transparent circle) where I click. It's terribly annoying and I can't find anywhere to turn it off.
Places I have looked:
- Mouse control panel
- Pen & Touch control panel
- Tablet PC control panel
- Ease of Access Center
- Wacom's Tablet Settings application
- System control panel > Advanced > Performance > Visual Effects
Is there really no way to get rid of that effect?
For the record, I have a desktop PC with a regular (non-touch, non-tablet-input) display. The only tablet/pen input I have is an old-fashioned digitizer tablet.
Best Answer
Apparently getting rid of those ripples requires two non-obvious things:
The setting is located in the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\TabletPC\
, a DWORD value namedTurnOffPenFeedback
which should be set to 1 (0x00000001
).As an alternative to direct registry editing, use
gpedit.msc
tool to edit the group policy for your machine. The setting is located under Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Tablet PC > Cursors. (Group Policy is only available in Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions.)But still the most important part: The setting is only honoured if the Tablet PC Components are installed, so if you (like me) removed them in the hope of just having a normal PC with tablet input, you have to re-install them (and then proceed to disable all the features that are unhelpful and get in the way on non-tablet computers.)