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their is a red circle crosshair stuck on my screen, it won't show on screenshots, but the circle will not go away. how do it get rid of it before i factory reset my PC
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It sounds like you may be using a 'gaming' monitor ? Many gaming monitors have an option in their OSD setup to enable a crosshair.
I've had BenQ and ASUS monitors with this option.
Never used it myself, but believe it may not show in a screen shot because it is not generated by Windows or your graphics processor.
[EDIT: Just verified the monitor crosshair does not show on screen shot.]
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Hi,
I'm Sumit, here to answer your query at the Microsoft Community.
Please Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager.
On the Processes Tab, do you see any program which might be showing the crosshair? If so, right-click it and select End Task.
Hope that helps, and rely on us for any further inquiries. All the best.
thanks it was my gaming monitor, its fixed i was losing my mind for a few hours
