A mouse mover app that moves like a hand, not a metronome
A mouse mover app keeps your PC from deciding you have gone: no screen lock, no sleep, no away status in a chat app, no remote session timing out. The simplest ones shove the pointer a few pixels left and right on a fixed beat, which is easy to spot and annoying the moment you sit back down.
Auto Mouse Mover plots every nudge through a handful of random points as one continuous bend and closes the loop on the very pixel it started from, so the pointer is where you left it when you return. No two paths repeat. It uses genuine mouse input, which resets the idle timer Windows keeps, and it never presses a key.
Its window shows a drawn computer mouse resting on a pad, where recent paths linger and fade, plus a status line with a countdown to the next movement. The drawn mouse doubles as the on/off button.
Move the mouse automatically only when you are idle
Choose a Mode. When idle waits until neither mouse nor keyboard has been touched for a set time, anywhere from 5 seconds to 10 minutes. Every N seconds moves on a steady interval from 5 seconds up to 5 minutes, but still holds back whenever your hand is on the mouse. Grab the mouse in the middle of a nudge and it stops immediately, leaving the pointer under your hand.
Then pick a Movement:
- Small natural: short loops close to the pointer.
- Wide natural: larger sweeps of a few hundred pixels across the screen.
- Tiny 1-pixel: one pixel out and straight back, for when you want no visible motion at all.
Run the mouse mover on a work-hours schedule
Under Active hours, switch On a schedule on and fill in the allowed slots, one hour per cell, across a full week. Out of the box the weekday office block from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. is already filled. Outside the painted hours it moves nothing and stops holding the PC awake, so a desktop left on over the weekend can sleep as usual. The status line reads Resting · outside active hours and shows when the next block begins.
Keep the computer awake with or without the screen
While it is running and inside your hours, the PC is kept awake as well. Leave Keep the screen on enabled to keep the display lit, or turn it off so the monitor can go dark while the machine itself stays up.
With Start with Windows enabled, plus Start in the tray, it is ready every morning without a window in the way. Right-click the tray icon to switch it on or off, open the window or reach Settings. Closing the window only hides it, and whether it was on is remembered across restarts. If you used the earlier MouseShaker, your mode and movement choice carry across.
