For over a decade now, my goto for screen capture has always been TechSmith’s SnagIt.

By default, when you take a screen capture using SnagIt, it will look like this:

snagItCapture

Note that the location of the cursor.

This you can delete by selecting it and deleting.

SnagItCrop

However it can be annoying to have to keep doing it.

The solution is in the capture settings:

snagItCaptureWindow

Turn off the following setting:

snagItCropDefault

So that it looks like this:

snagItFinal

And now new captures will no longer have the cursor.

Happy hacking!