Posted on 08/18/2018 11:52:31 AM PDT by ExGeeEye
Is there a way to make the mouse pointer/cursor a bright color so it stands out against a wall of text? Sometimes (especially when, in text, it looks like a cross section of and I-beam, I lose it and have to wiggle it all over the place before I find it.
Windows! Yeah, I know. Probably all kinds of cool trix in Apple-sauce.
Look around in the mouse options. There’s some pointer style choices you can select.
So this is a Wintel question?
Also there’s a locator option you can turn on which shows some concentric circles when you two the control key.
Hit the control key that is.
The I-beam when over text is because the pointer is automatically changed to an insertion point for text. There are options in Windows to change the cursor format. Not sure how those changes affect the insertion pointer.
However, go to Control Panel, select the Mouse, Select the Pointer Options, under Visibility check: Pointer Trails, and show location when press the control key. the middle option of "hide when typing" is up to you
Thanks for all the helpful hints and the one or two chuckles.
I found a solution that works for me somewhere in all of that.
FReepers are the BEST!
With an Apple, you click on System Preferences, then Accessibility. You can invert colors, increase contrast, increase the size of the cursor, and a few other things to make it easier to track.
Wall of Text? Is that the 80s band that did “Mexican Monitor” and “Ring of Cursors” and “Back in Text?”
Click this link and download the file it offers:
It is one of my most cherished IT possessions, the red cursor from the old Redneck Rampage computer game. I’ve been putting that same cursor in PCs for close to 20- years. It’s less than 1 kb in size.
Download it and copy it into the folder C:\Windows\Cursors
If you don’t find the ‘Cursors” folder there, search to find it.
Once you’ve moved the .cur file to the Cursors folder, while holding down the WinKey (the one with the MS flag), hit the letter R. That will open a ‘Run’ window. Cut and paste the following line into that ‘Run’ window, then hit ‘Open’:
control /name Microsoft.Mouse
That will open the Mouse Properties applet. In that applet, click on the ‘Pointers’ tab.
In the ‘Customize:’ window, highlight the ‘Normal Select’ entry. Then click ‘Browse’.
Drill down to wherever you left the Redneck Rampage cursor. In all likelihood it will be C:\Windows\Cursors. Highlight the RR.pointer.cur file, then click ‘Open’.
That brings you back to the ‘Cursors’ tab in the Mouse Applet. Click ‘Okay’ and you’re done.
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But thanks!
I did test that before I posted it, BTW. This one is supposed to be good for 30 days:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=02714395844760904081
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