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In researching this site to see if this is redundant, I am struck by how many ideas relate to the lowly computer mouse!
I have recently migrated to a laptop computer for home use, and have it set to "sleep" to conserve energy when not in use.
I sometimes find it hard to locate the mouse as the
computer "wakes up" from sleep, and find myself shaking the mouse (optical) to try to see the small cursor on the LCD screen.
Why not have the mouse pointer icon displayed initially large for identification, then smaller as it is used until normal sized?
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I tap the <CTRL> key, and Windows helpfully homes in on the cursor with a series of circles. |
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What windows you got? Mine doesn't do that. |
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I must be doing something wrong, I can't do that angel. |
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Select [Start] - [Control Panel] - [Mouse]. On the 'Pointer Options' tab, there's a check box for 'Show location of pointer when I press the Control key' |
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Cool! I've now got puddles all over my screen when I hit CTRL. |
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Nice! Thanks for the info. |
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Bun ! But mainly because of [angel]'s top tip ! :-) |
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Recent macOS versions have a feature where the cursor temporarily gets quite big when you shake it. I think you might have to enable it in System Preferences -> Universal Access or somewhere like that. There also used to be a third-party Mac utility that would dim the whole screen apart from a circle around the cursor when you pressed a certain key. |
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So not a big fat mouse sitting down the back of the desk unit. |
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