It’s found in Settings – Bluetooth & Devices – Mouse – Additional mouse settings. Note: even with a larger cursor, the window border-grabbing zone remains the same, but you can enlarge it with a quick tweak.Īnd if you’re wondering, as confusing as it is, you can still access the old Mouse Properties panel. On my laptop, weirdly “1” doesn’t seem a small cursor size, so I kept it at the first level. Size “1” is too small for me, and white “3 is a bit too big. Under Mouse pointer style you can change the size of the cursor.
I will try it for a couple of days and see how I feel about it. Out of the four, Inverted must be the coolest and weirdest option at the same time. My Dad’s been infected through just one of these ‘free’ downloads.The last option, the plus button Choose another color is how you change the mouse pointer color in Windows 11 to any color you like. Why? Because it’s a very common transmission vector for viruses and spyware. Tip: there are also third-party fun cursor apps you can download. Decide it’s too big? Try just “large” as a compromise. Choose the extra large scheme, click “Apply” on the lower right of the window, and look how much bigger the cursor just got:Įasy enough, and it’ll remember across restarts so you should be good to go. It’s a bit hard to read (ironically) but in addition to the standard Aero scheme, there’s also “Windows Aero (large)” and “Windows Aero (extra large)”. You can see, mine currently says “Windows Aero (system scheme)”. You’ll see these options:Ĭlick on “Change mouse pointers” and you’ll move to a rather more complicated and information-dense window:Īs you can see, you can change individual cursors if you particularly dislike one, but instead, click on the pull-down menu under “Scheme”. Now you’ll go to a big window with many different options, one well worth exploring:įor now, though, stay with me and look on the top left. Anywhere’ll do.Ĭlick on “Personalize”, the last choice of the set shown. Launch your PC and right-click on the Desktop photo. Let’s focus on cursors, though, and I’m going to show you a handy Win7 shortcut at the same time. In any case, Windows 7 is extraordinarily flexible and there are a ton of features included for people with visual impairments, including the ability to set a higher contrast color scheme, enlarge cursors, fonts, icons, system messages, change or increase volume of system sounds, and much more. Now if they were really cool, they’d have replacement eyes you could get, running “vision 0.9b” or something, and you’d have a slick heads-up display superimposed over everything you see, but perhaps I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. Microsoft’s got your back, nothing to worry about.
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