MouseUnSnag

Despite the latest improvements in terms of GPU performance and technology, such as support for connecting up to five concomitant displays at increasingly higher resolutions and refresh rates, certain software limitations can hamper your productivity potential, which is where MouseUnSnag comes into play to free your cursor from the shackles of your monitors’ borders.

Double-clicking the program’s portable executable instantly launches its background service alongside a dedicated discrete system tray icon for users to interact with whenever necessary. Right-clicking it brings up a straightforward context menu allowing you to pick which of the three main functionalities you wish to keep active concomitantly, thus providing you with the freedom of customizing the setup to fit your particular workflow.

Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft introduced what can be described as “Sticky corners”, namely, solid margins at all four corners of the screen to give a helping hand to users with multiple monitors having to easily reach the close, start and Control Center buttons without accidentally sliding off to the other displays.

While such a feature can be useful from an accessibility standpoint, the operating system provides no toggle for disabling it, which is where MouseUnSnag’s first option vows to restore the behavior of older Windows iterations.

Depending on your particular display setup’s placement, a combination of portrait and landscape screens can result in the inability to drag your cursor from any portion of an edge when having to use an application on a different monitor. As such, the second option lets you move the mouse from a higher margin on a portrait-set display to a lower margin on a regular landscape one for ease of use.

The third option provides users with the ability to connect the furthest edges of your monitors together to form a seamless cursor dragging experience through which one can reach the left edge of your leftmost display by moving your mouse from the right edge of your rightmost screen, which can be an invaluable function for those with ultrawide monitors or multiple devices with of resolution higher than 4K.

Whether the “Sticky corner” feature of newer Windows iterations feels bothersome, or you always wanted to avoid dragging the mouse across the entire combined horizontal plane of your landscape-set monitors, MouseUnSnag can be an excellent utility given its accessible feature set, customizable usage scenarios and lightweight memory footprint.