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Annoying little pop up menu using wacom.

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#1

Whenever I click (hit the tablet) and drag with my wacom pen, slowly enough, I get this horrible little pop-up menu on my screen. I mainly have this in Zbrush because when I do a move-operation, I hit the tablet, and start dragging a fraction of a second later. I have this issue all over me windows XP, and I remember having it with Vista/7 as well, but there was a menu somewhere buried deep where I could disable that. In XP nowhere to be found. I even don’t know if it is a wacom driver thing, or another windows service. Whenever I hit and drag like painting in Photoshop, or moving a volume slider, I always have this slight delay. My pointer stays in place and then suddenly pop 0.5" in the direction I’m dragging. I don’t have that issue with my mouse or touchpad (I’m working on a Laptop).

This is truly driving me berserk... I hope someone knows how to disable this or I4m going to pull my hair out. :o The pop up menu looks like this:

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#2

Racoon - I get this as well, only in Zbrush though. Never in any other program.
Like you it happens when I use the move brush.
I am using XP 64 bit.

Please anyone, this is absolutely nuts. :mad:

#3

Well, good news ! In the meanwhile I bumped into a thread, where 2 solutions are offered:

  1. Wacom support says, install an older driver, 6.11 recommended. This feature cannot be disabled in the new drivers. (I didn’t like that since older drivers made Zbursh and other tools crash under XP64, latest drivers solved that)
  2. This worked for me! At last :wink:
    Make a new text document, and paste in this text including the first line. Save the file, then rename it to change the extension from .txt to .reg.<dl class=“codebox”><dd><code>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\TabletPC]
“TurnOffPenFeedback”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\TabletPC]
“TurnOffPenFeedback”=dword:00000001
</code></dd></dl>
Then double click the .reg file, or right click it and choose Run as administrator, and say yes a few times.

Then reboot.

Hope this will work for you and others as well mel_danes!

#4

excellent reg hack. Thx for posting!

#5

Well, it worked for a while somehow, and now the darn thing is back ! :eek:

Stepping back to 6.11 helped as well, but again, after a reboot is seems to be back! :frowning:

#6

not sure if this is what you guys need, but this did the trick for me when I installed windows7.

http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/turning-off-pen-feedback-cursor-in.html