If you are working on multiple Monitors, chances are high that you have cursed Windows for not being able to properly move your mouse across them.
I know I have, but at long last, I have found a handy little tool that will make your multi-Monitor work that much smoother.
What’s the problem exactly?
So here’s a quick rundown of what Windows 10 (and previous Versions) is messing up when using multiple Monitors that are not the exact same size and resolution.
- When moving your mouse from one monitor to the next the mouse will jump up or down
- Your mouse might get stuck when trying to move it from one Monitor to the next, especially when your mouse is close to the Monitor’s corners
Why is this happening?
The answer is quite easy and also a bit embarrassing for Microsoft:
It will use the resolution of your Monitor to guess at its Screen size. This means Win 10 will think any 4K Monitor that you own will most definitely be twice the size of any 2K Monitor you are using.
This might seem logical at first, but what is not taken into account is the Pixel Distance, as in fact 4K Monitors usually have much smaller Pixel Distances than 2K (or FullHD) Monitors.
In my case, my 4K (2160p) Monitor is 27″, and my WQHD (1440p) Monitor, too, is 27″ and here is how Windows should see my Monitors:
Although my Monitors have different resolutions, they are the same size.
BUT…
Here is what Windows thinks the size of my Monitors looks like:

Win 10 thinks the 27″ 4K Monitor is larger than the 27″ WQHD Monitor
The above Image also makes it easy for us to grasp why our Mouse Cursors are jumping up or down when moving them to another monitor, or why the Mouse Cursor is running into an invisible Border (seems to get stuck) at the corners between Monitor 1 and 2.
The mouse will get stuck because Windows thinks we are moving the mouse into an area where no screen is:
Here’s a quick video that many of you might have experienced already:

Mouse jumping between Monitors
So, long story short, how to fix this?
How to achieve Pixel-Perfect Mouse-Movement across Monitors of different Resolutions or Size
There is a handy little tool called “LittleBigMouse”.
Download it here, it’s free.
Install it and fire it up and you’ll see the following screen:
This tool is DPI-aware, meaning it will know how big your Monitors really are. It recognized right away that my 4K Monitor on the left has 163 DPI and my WQHD Monitor on the right has 109 DPI, making them essentially the same 27″ size.
Now, LittleBigMouse does not know how your Monitors are placed on your desk, so you might have to click on adjust position or adjust size and do some tweaking.
After you’ve adjusted the position of your monitors, all you have to do is click the “Play” in the bottom right corner.
That will make the changes live and you can go test out the Mouse movement across your screens.
Enable “Load at startup” so the tool launches when Windows boots.
That’s about it! I’ve been using this handy little tool for a while now and it works great. No more jumpy mouse movement or running into invisible borders between Monitors.
Now, all we need is a tool (or a Windows fix) that can handle display scaling weirdness when moving windows across Monitors that have different display scaling and I would be the happiest man alive 🙂
Have questions? Let us know in the forum or in the comments!
9 Comments
17 April, 2022
The program fails to load on startup
5 August, 2021
Worked great, thanks for the help. It’s a real pain Windows doesn’t automatically support this but the program did the trick.
14 January, 2021
You can actually manually adjust the virtual size of the screens, i.e. scale the smaller one to the larger, and the transition becomes really smooth.
21 September, 2020
This is amazing! But it doesn’t seem to work with Wacom have you had any success?
22 September, 2020
Hey Fred,
I did not test that yet, let me check!
Alex
11 March, 2021
Same thing. It’s an amazing tool, but only for the mouse, I guess.
12 March, 2021
Hey Natalia, yes it seems that way unfortunately.
29 August, 2020
Hello sir,
this PC build for Gaming(Not profession), 3d animation(Editing, rendering 10-20min vids), Photoshop.
Q.1- Is there any incompatibility in this build?
CPU— AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Upto 4.2 GHz 6 Core 12 Threads AM4 Socket 35MB Cache
CPU Cooler— AMD Wraith Spire Cooler (Included with CPU) –
Motherboard— ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming K4 Motherboard (AMD Socket AM4/Ryzen Series CPU/Max 64GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory)
Graphics Card— Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Super OC 6GB GDDR6 192-bit
Memory (RAM)— CORSAIR CMK16GX4M2Z3200C16 Desktop Ram VENGEANCE LPX Series 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4 3200MHz Black
PCIe-SSD— Crucial P1 500GB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive CT500P1SSD8
Power Supply— Corsair CX550 SMPS – 550 Watt 80 Plus Bronze Certification PSU With Active PFC
Case— Corsair Carbide Series 100R Silent Edition (ATX) Mid Tower Cabinet (Black)
2 September, 2020
Hey Savan,
All of the components are compatible! 🙂 I would recommend going with a B550 Motherboard though, that way your Build is more Futureproof and you can upgrade to upcoming CPUs when they are released.
Cheers,
Alex