Pointer Toggles

Mouse acceleration, or pointer precision as it is also called in Windows, can be a very useful feature for some users, but it needs to be disabled occasionally, such as when playing certain video games.

Pointer Toggles is a small application that makes it a lot easier to enable or disable this feature. It runs in the system tray and allows you to turn pointer precision on or off with just a couple of mouse clicks.

As any gamer knows, one of the first things you should do to improve your accuracy is disable mouse acceleration. While it is turned off automatically in some games, this is not always the case.

Of course, mouse acceleration can still help with certain tasks, so it can be useful to have a quick way to enable it. Normally, you would have to open up the Mouse Properties panel, which isn’t terribly convenient.

Pointer Toggles seems to have been designed to provide easier access to various mouse settings, but only mouse acceleration can be toggled on or off for the time being.

If you double-click the tray icon, the program will enable or disable pointer precision, while also changing the icon to indicate that the feature is on or off.

One of the advantages offered by Pointer Toggles is that it does not need to be installed before use, thus making it remarkably simple to deploy. What’s more, it stores no data locally and will leave no traces behind.

This application can prove very useful for those who frequently toggle mouse acceleration on or off. It enables you to change this setting directly from the system tray, and it is unobtrusive and very simple to deploy.