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Windows Ink & Touch - Disabling "Circle" icon when Right Clicking with Wacom Tablet and Pen

Anonymous
2018-06-16T16:09:05+00:00

Hello Microsoft community,

    As the subject mentions, I am trying to prevent Microsoft's ink & touch functionality from interfering with Wacom's pen and tablet.  I use the Wacom Intuos Pro for my 3D work within applications like Photoshop, Zbrush, Houdini, Maya, etc... and whenever I try alt + right clicking with my pen, this is the result that I get:

Essentially, the windows ink circle thing pops up, and I cannot alt + right click because of it defaulting to alt + left click instead.

I've tried many things to remove windows ink and touch functionalities including...

1.  Updating all Wacom drivers & firmware to the latest and turning off "Use Windows Ink" in the tablet settings...

2.  Configuring the "main" pen and tablet settings like so:

3.  Going through the "other" windows pen and tablet settings via the control panel (which is now also missing the "flicks" tab btw)

And finally, configuring the registry to disable "Hold mode," "Flick Mode," and "TouchMode_hold"

Sooo.. I dont know how to fix this.  It's crucial to my work that I can alt + right-click things, and I strongly believe this is a Microsoft issue due to the fact that the "circle" icon which is popping up is nearly identical to the "press and hold" circles that windows ink tries using by default.  I also haven't found a way to access the "flicks" settings in Windows, and perhaps it's some sort of "flicks" option that's messing this up?  

Does anyone have any other ideas on how I could fix this?  (besides switching to Mac)  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

Thank you, have a good day

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows ink and touch

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-06-30T03:15:28+00:00

    Thank you for the update. My apologies for the late response, Tyler. I was thoroughly checking for other possible workarounds to disable the circle icon. I've also tested various devices that were running on build 1803 and the Flicks settings under Control Panel is also missing. For the meantime, may I suggest downloading and installing the latest driver from Wacom:

    According to Wacom's release notes (6/21/2018):

    "We fixed an issue related to undesirable behavior with pen buttons. This issue caused problems with Scrolling Up or Down, and an inability to disable the Wacom driver's use of Windows Ink."

    Will keep an eye out on your response.

    Regards.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-06-22T23:36:27+00:00

    Thank you for getting back to me, Tyler. Let's try performing a different approach to troubleshoot the issue, kindly refer to the steps below:

    1. Press Windows key + I, then search for "Pen Settings" and click on it.
    2. Turn off everything under Handwriting.
    3. Under Pen shortcuts, set Click once, Double-click and Press and hold to Nothing.
    4. Launch Control Panel, change the View by to Small icons.
    5. Select Pen and Touch, select **** Press and hold and click on Settings button.
    6. Once again, uncheck the box for Enable press and hold for right-clicking.
    7. Under Pen buttons, uncheck the box for Use the top of the pen to erase ink (where available).

    Hope to hear from you soon.

    Regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-02T22:17:24+00:00

    Anytime, Tyler! Glad to know that it all worked out.

    Have a great day too.

    All the best!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-02T15:55:02+00:00

    Awesome!  That new update fixed the issue.  

    Thank you so much for looking into the issue Melchizedek.  I hope you have a great day,

    -  Tyler

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-17T03:29:57+00:00

    Hello Kelly,

    Thank you for providing me a detailed information of your concern. As I've researched about the "Circle" icon issue, it seems that you've already tried every possible workarounds to correct the said issue. Moreover, I would like verify which build is currently installed on your device. To check, follow the steps below:

    1. Press Windows key + R, then type in winver.
    2. Click OK.

    Upon further investigating, I came across through a forum suggesting additional steps to somehow disable/minimize the appearance of the "Circle" icon. Kindly refer to the steps below:

    1. Launch Control Panel, change the View by to Small icons.
    2. Select Pen and Touch, select **** Press and hold and click on Settings button.
    3. This time, try to leave the box checked for Enable press and hold for right-clicking.
    4. Under Duration, move the slider all the way to the right.

    Although this method is not the perfect fix, this will somehow make the "Circle" icon only show up for the first time.

    Looking forward to your response.

    Regards.

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