Native Input Mute
Stop chosen keys and mouse inputs doing their normal job in Windows while OmniControl keeps using them, so an input driving your virtual controller no longer also types or clicks. Free on both tiers, with every way out built in.
Highlights
- Native Input Mute: pick keys, mouse buttons, the wheel or pointer movement and stop them performing their normal Windows actions.
- Muted inputs still reach OmniControl, so a key driving your virtual stick no longer also types into whatever is behind the game.
- Global by design: no game detection, no per-game setup, no lists. One hotkey turns it on and off from anywhere.
- Emergency release built in: Ctrl + Alt + Home, hold both Shift keys for two seconds, or Release input from the tray icon.
- Optionally link it to Drive a Controller, so the same hotkey arms both and your mouse is an ordinary mouse outside it.
Fixes
- Hardened how the driver installer runs with administrator rights.
- Removed the anti-debug code entirely.
- SmartScreen protection is no longer switched off inside the app.
- The installer now carries proper publisher, copyright and homepage details.
Known issues
- Muting mouse movement freezes the pointer but cannot stop a game being told the mouse moved. The page includes a compatibility test, and Play Mode covers the case it cannot.
OmniControl 2.5.6 adds Native Input Mute, and it exists to solve one specific annoyance: an input doing two things at once.
When W is driving a virtual left stick, W is usually still typing a W into whatever else is listening. Alt-tab out of a game and you find a search box full of "wwwww". Bind left-click to a trigger and you are also clicking something behind the game. Native Input Mute stops the second half without touching the first: the inputs you choose stop performing their normal Windows actions, while OmniControl carries on using them exactly as before.
It is global on purpose. There is no game detection in it, no executable matching, and no lists of any kind. It is on or it is off, and what it mutes is only ever what you selected. That also makes it a straightforward way to disable the Windows key for a session, or silence a key that has started chattering.
It is free on both tiers, and you will find it under Output.
Getting out of it
Because it is global, the escape routes matter more than the feature does, so all of them are built in and none of them depend on the app being healthy.
Press Ctrl + Alt + Home, or hold both Shift keys for two seconds. Both are recognised inside the input layer itself, so they work even if OmniControl has stopped responding, and even if you have muted those keys. If you would rather use the mouse, the tray icon has Release input, and the tray icon is forced visible for as long as anything is muted.
Muting also lifts by itself if OmniControl closes, crashes, or is killed from Task Manager. It is a permission that has to be continuously re-earned rather than a state that has to be cleaned up. And it is always off when OmniControl starts: your selection is remembered, the switch is not.
The first time you turn it on, OmniControl asks you to actually perform the emergency release once, so you learn that it works on your keyboard before you are relying on it.
On mouse movement
Muting movement freezes the pointer, but it cannot stop an application being told that the mouse moved. Windows lets any program read the mouse directly and no program can deny that to another. Ordinary software sees nothing; a game reading the mouse directly can still detect the motion. The page has a test that reports what happens on your PC, and Play Mode covers the case it cannot.
Going further would mean a kernel driver or reaching into another game's process, which is exactly what anti-cheat exists to catch, and the risk of that would land on your account. OmniControl stays inside ordinary Windows behaviour and does not hide from anything.
Also in this release
A round of security and packaging work: the elevated driver installer is hardened, the anti-debug code is gone entirely, WebView2's SmartScreen protection is no longer switched off inside the app, and the installer now carries proper publisher, copyright and homepage details instead of shipping them blank.