@Chielus if you refer to mouse acceleration as the "setting from hell" then yes, it's been around from before windows xp days. Except they fu*ked it up even more with XP.
Read here under "why do you need the fix" section for more info. https://donewmouseaccel.blogspot.com/2010/03/markc-windows-7-mouse-acceleration-fix.html?m=1
At least it can be diasabled for the most part, unless a game (an outdated one that still calls the pre-XP functions) enables it. Also I'm a digital artist and have never had trouble with it on my wacom.