Find Your Mouse Pointer!

Have you ever lost your mouse pointer? It just happens, but thankfully Windows has a neat little feature that'll locate your mouse pointer with a simple keystroke.

Let's learn how!

For Windows Xp and Vista: click Start>Control Panel>Mouse.

Windows 7 users: simply click Start and in the Search Box type “Mouse Pointer”, and in the results click “Change how the mouse pointer looks”

In the resulting window, make sure you're under the Pointer Options tab and put a check next to “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key”.


Now whenever you press the CTRL key a locator ring will draw your attention to wherever your pointer is at!

The Mac Lost Cursor

Ever lose your mouse arrow (cursor) on your screen and have to squiggle the mouse around to find it? It’s no wonder you can’t see the arrow. Macintosh cursor arrow size was defined way back at the beginning when all Macs had those little 9 in screens. As our monitors got bigger and pixel size got smaller the cursor didn’t adjust.

With OS X.4 Apple finally caught up with itself. You can now set the cursor size in System Preferences. The setting is a bit buried but here it is.

In System Preferences choose Universal Access. Then click on the Mouse and Trackpad tab. The bottom most slider on the panel is Cursor Size. As you slide the little blue triangle back and forth you will see the cursor change to match your settings. You can make it really big if you want. The enlarged cursor also looks a little jagged, but at least you can find the little beggar.