With the current master (and for a couple of months), I observe this redisplay problem where moving the cursor up or down, when the buffer is scrolled, the cursor may leave some ghost trace. This is with w32-use-visible-system-caret set to t. It seems the problem does not happen if this variable is set to nil.
Picture with several traces of the cursor :
Best regards,
Fabrice
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of 2020-01-18 built on MARVIN
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