Wacom Tablet, ring round pen cursor

[Therapix]

Thanks! It was driving me insane!!!! 1st post is the way to go for Graphire4

 

[BDuff]

Just found a much easier way to turn off those frigging annoying rings.

See I just tried doing the "gpedit.msc" program, but it wasn't loading the "snap" right or whatever it's supposed to be doing. And I didn't really think surgically editing every entry in the Registry would be a very wise thing to do, unless you're a really deep Windows registry editing type of person.

So here's what I just did for Windows 7 on my Wacom Intuos3 :

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> Scroll down to Tablet PC Input Service (Not TabletServiceWacom) -> Stop Service.

It's also set to start Automatically, so you may want to turn that off so it doesn't bother you again. Just right click on the Tablet PC Input Service -> Properties -> Change Startup Type to Disabled.

I'm sure it'll be a whole bunch easier for everyone that way.

Cheers!!

UPDATE: If you want to be an insane person, you can just restart the service and the splash rings will come back.... Good way to annoy the uninformed.

 

[deanimate]

just wanted to post here and say i was having the same darn problem. couldn't believe they would include such a feature without an option being readily available to disable it.
crazy.
anyway the services.msc trick worked for me. the click and hold disable didn't do anything but hey the stupid feature has gone now so job done

might have to frequent these forums more frequently. some useful stuff here

 

[chinggay]

BDuff, thanks for the very useful information

the rippling circles were very annoying and i've been searching insanely for answers ever since i had my tablet.. D:

thanks again!

 

[jaeger]

Hi

Is there any way of keeping the tablet functions, but turning off the ring round the cursor, with Win 7 Home Premium? I couldn't find the Group Policy Editor - my understanding is that this is only available on Pro and Ultimate.

I've turned off the tablet service completely at the moment, but would like to have the tablet functionality if possible, except for that annoying ring.

Using Wacom Intuos 3.

Thanks in advance

 

[MBernard]

Jaeger

There are various things you can do; I've done most of them, to get the ring off the cursor, and also get rid of the palette that turns up on screen offering handwriting options (I'm not sure what it's called; it's some time since I've seen it. Here are various things I've done. They may or may not work for you, because I've got W7 ultimate, and have also done the Group Policy fix. But it's worth a try.

-----In Ctrl Panel there's a Pen & touch applet. On the Pen Options tab, click Settings, and unclick 'enable start input panel gesture'. On the Flicks tab, unclick 'Use flicks' and 'Display flicks' (this is at the bottom).

-----You probably have a Services thing in W7 home premium: right click My Computer, click Manage. In the Comp. Mgmt. pane, on lhs bottom: Services. Go down to Tablet PC Input Service. In the column Startup Type, it probably says 'automatic'. Double click anywhere in the line. Change Startup Type to: Disabled.
Just below it should be TabletServiceWacom.... It should say Automatic. If it doesn't, change it to Automatic.

----Finally, here is a registry fix that I found online and copied to my computer notes. I've lost track of who wrote it, so I'm quoting without credit (apologies to the author):

>>>I found the registry locations responsible for these animations, which in previous versions were referred to as "Dynamic Pen Feedback." It's all controlled by WISP, the Windows Inking Services Platform, and there is a section which enumerates WISP settings which is mirrored in these three locations across the registry:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Pen\SysEventParameters
HKUS\**\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Pen\SysEventParameters
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wisp\Pen\SysEventParameters

>>I think the only values that control the splash and other animations are Splash and UIFeedbackMode, which you should set to (decimal) 0. If you have UAC on it's going to give you fits, as usual, and likely one of those branches is going to tell you you don't have permission in any case, so you'll need to give yourself permission for that key.<<

I haven't tried this fix myself, because the Group Policy, Services and Ctrl Panel routes worked for me, and I only edit the registry when all else fails (taking a backup first!).

I hope one of these, or a combination, works for you.

Mary

 

[jaeger]

Thanks for the advice. There does seem to be some inconsistency in the way this is implemented, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that some MS-provided tablet features were still there after I disabled the tablet in the services. I'm going to go back through the full feature list and see if there's anything I want that's currently disabled, and go with the registry tweak if necessary. Otherwise, I'll wait and see what happens (if anything) in SR1.

There's a lot of cool features in their tablet implementation (and it's definitely better than just the straight Wacom functionality). It would be good if they do make it easier to tweak in the future.

- Jaeger

 

[laura]

Just found a much easier way to turn off those frigging annoying rings.

See I just tried doing the "gpedit.msc" program, but it wasn't loading the "snap" right or whatever it's supposed to be doing. And I didn't really think surgically editing every entry in the Registry would be a very wise thing to do, unless you're a really deep Windows registry editing type of person.

So here's what I just did for Windows 7 on my Wacom Intuos3 :

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> Scroll down to Tablet PC Input Service (Not TabletServiceWacom) -> Stop Service.

It's also set to start Automatically, so you may want to turn that off so it doesn't bother you again. Just right click on the Tablet PC Input Service -> Properties -> Change Startup Type to Disabled.

I'm sure it'll be a whole bunch easier for everyone that way.

Cheers!!

UPDATE: If you want to be an insane person, you can just restart the service and the splash rings will come back.... Good way to annoy the uninformed.

This worked for me the first time until I used Windows 7 Snipping Tool. Then it came right back without changing the settings. I had to use the gpedit solution. I sure hope they find a way to make this easier to find and implement. I use my Graphire as a mouse. I can't even use a mouse anymore. I just use my Wacom---my Intuos I use for Photoshop, but the Graphire is my normal navigation tool.

Thanks for finding solutions to this massively annoying problem.

 

[rab]

Turn off pen feedback

Can somebody please tell me how to get to the "turn off pen feedback" screen in Windows 7 home premium?

Thank you.

 

[illpoetic]

You really have to watch it if you disable the TabletInputPC service!!! :sarc: My HP Pavilions have been acting silly since I took this advice and disabled them, in order for my Cintiq/Pen to work without those stupid rings. What happens to me, on 2 PCs, is the USB keyboard starts flaking out and none of the characters I type correspond to the correct keys- although the pen works just fine, of course! You'll end up typing gibberish in Windows 7 on these HP machines, and the wrong combo could enable the SLEEP command of your PC!!! When I re-enable the service, the typing straightens itself out shortly after. Seriously it is not instantaneous, it takes a few open and closes of Notepad, and typing, to sort the keyboard back out. We need a solid resolution that ring is seriously annoying, considering that I draw art with this Cintiq 21ux and the ring is terrible for that! Someone get back to me if there is a less intrusive method to do this.

 

[siddav]

thanks a million. i migrated from vista today and this was exactly what led me to this forum.

 

[kestrel]

I find it amusing how Microsoft and Apple have practically declared this year to be the dawn of the touch OS and tablet PC and yet we can't do something as simple as turn off a cursor animation without digging around and disabling core services.

 

[mstewar1]

I've tried all of the suggestions in this thread and get no love at all -- the annoying circles just won't go away. It's really just so weak that they'd put a "feature" such as this in the operating system and give no clean, simple means to turn it the heck off! I am stuck, I just have to put up with it. Not happy at all.

 

[illpoetic]

Disabling Tablet PC service is the only way

I've tried all of the suggestions in this thread and get no love at all -- the annoying circles just won't go away. It's really just so weak that they'd put a "feature" such as this in the operating system and give no clean, simple means to turn it the heck off! I am stuck, I just have to put up with it. Not happy at all.

The only way is to disable the Tablet PC service, but leave enabled the Wacom service, from SERVICES section. Sometimes, that has a bad effect on other applications, and you lose pen control, when working with certain applications. ON 2 of my machines, when I disable the Tablet PC service, and open, then close MS Paint, for instance, the cursor no longer responds. With the latest Wacom drivers, if I take the pen off screen (I have a cintiq and Intuos), just to the right of the cursor buried in the top right corner, then come back on screen, the pen will resume. Other times, like using Manga Studio, the pen draw stupid lines that I don't want, with Tablet PC disabled. So use at your own discretion.

 

[kestrel]

If you have Windows 7 pro or ultimate this will solve the problem:
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...ablet-ring-round-pen-cursor-2.html#post341463

If you do not, you have to disable the PC input service:

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...ablet-ring-round-pen-cursor-3.html#post349733

 

[userq]

Get rid of Animated ring round pen cursor in windows 7

The solution is here:
Configuring Windows 7 and your Pressure-Sensitive tablet to avoid cursor “ring” animations (a.k.a “Dynamic feedback”) - Saveen Reddy's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

This is a very serious article which in detail explain how to get rid of the annoying ripples/rings.

The problem is a typical Microsoft kind of problem, very frustrating, time consuming and so unnecessary. It destroys Your productivity and is impossible to turn of in win 7 for people with ordinary win7-OS-knowlegde.

 

[thegray]

I spent a few hours researching this issue last night and discovered that the Splash Animation(as well as a few other annoying features) stem from the WISP Application that runs in the background. There are no permanent fixes other than to disable the WISP operations. In Windows 7, you'll need to gain file ownership to C:\Windows\System32\wisptis.exe from there, you can simply disable and rename the file.
However this process proved to be much easier by locating the file through Linux, which required no file permissions in order to alter.
Upon rebooting in Windows 7, everything resumed normally, without the little splash animation that causes so much hell for tablet and touch screen users.

I have to say that I'm not certain why Microsoft decided that it was a good idea to use this WISP feature (without a legitimate means to disable it).

 

[lux]

Try remove Microsoft Silverlight on "ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS".
I had this operation on WINDOWS XP 64 and sorted out.

Regards

 

[mgspeed]

renaming solved Home Premium pen splash problem

I had this problem several months ago and the registry hack finally did the trick BUT then it came back, and the system wouldn't let me changed the values in the registry! Renaming the wisp file name in C:\Windows\System32\wisptis.exe to "annoyingwisptis" did the trick on restart. Simple fix, and the file is still there in case I find some reason why I have to have it later. And no, I didn't have to hunt for the file in Linux, but I do have windows show all files including those pesky system files.

 

[artie1977]

Hi ! I'm a XP user. Does anybody know how to remove the ring (actually a star) on XP ?
Thanks in advance !