Preventing Windows from moving the cursor on touch

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Out of box, tapping a touchscreen display on Windows can move the cursor to touch location and leave it there, which can be an inconvenience on multi-display setups.

I made a macro that moves the cursor back to where it was before touching the screen.

If you use a touch-enabled display on Windows, you might have noticed a certain quirk: when you tap on the touchscreen, Windows might move your cursor to touch location, but will not put it back afterwards, which is an inconvenience if it's a smaller secondary display that you use for macros/etc. or even if you are using mouse/touch interchangeably.

So I wrote an AutoHotKey macro that fixes this.

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