This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off snap mouse pointer to default button when opening a supported dialog for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The mouse pointer, which is sometimes referred to as the cursor, is a bitmap that specifies a focus point on the screen for user input with the mouse.
To speed up the process of selecting a choice when a dialog box appears, you can turn on the Snap To mouse properties option to Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box.
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Pointer Snap To Default Button in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Pointer Snap To Default Button in Control Panel
- Option Three: Turn On or Off Pointer Snap To Default Button using REG file
This option is only available starting with Windows 11 build 26100.4202 (24H2).
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Accessibility on the left side, and click/tap on Mouse on the right side under Interaction. (see screenshot below)
3 Turn on or off (default) Snap to default button for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Mouse icon.
2 Click/tap on the Pointer Options tab. (see screenshot below)
3 Check (on) or uncheck (off - default) Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box under Snap To for what you want.
4 Click/tap on OK.
5 You can now close the Control Panel if you like.
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.
2 Turn On Pointer Snap To Default Button
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_On_pointer_Snap_To_default_button.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"SnapToDefaultButton"="1"3 Turn Off Pointer Snap To Default Button
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_Off_pointer_Snap_To_default_button.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"SnapToDefaultButton"="0"4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 Either sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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