Now, back to “Mouse” and a quick demonstration on the difference of changing the cursor (arrow) size.Īnd a click on the largest of the sizes shows the difference:īetween these different settings, give ’em a whirl and see if you can find Windows 8 (or Win8.1) a bit easier to use. So you can change your cursor thickness - I recommend 2px or 3px - to make it a bit more visible too. Let’s pop over to the “Other options” menu under Ease of Access instead, however (not shown in the pic above, it’d be just below “Mouse” on the left side) because that’s where you can change the insertion pointer: Score 1 for Windows 8!Īt this point you can change the size of the pointer (arrow, cursor, whatever you want to call it) and the color. Don’t think I would ever have found it without that handy search feature. In fact, the first match is what we seek, and it’s nicely labeled as “Change the mouse pointer size”.Īh, so that’s under “Ease of Access”. Oh, because it’s looking at “Files”! Click on Files to change it:Ĭhoose “Everywhere” and suddenly all sorts of useful matches appear: If you prefer, just swipe in from the right side of the screen, it’ll bring this up too.
Let’s start by using the Command-S keystroke to bring up the search charm on the Charms bar. The problem is that in an attempt to be smart, the Search feature in Win8 has different categories of results and by default it’s “Files” which doesn’t include any of the Control Panels in the OS. The fastest way to get to the right place in Windows8 is to use the search feature, because quite frankly it’s a pain now to navigate through the Control Panels area otherwise. Probably back at Redmond there’s some official definition that clearly differentiates the two, but really, let’s just look at what you can do in Windows 8 - Win8 for short - and how to do it. Sometimes it’s a hand, sometimes an arrow, sometimes an “I” bar when you’re going to insert text in a word processor. Actually, I think “cursor” and “pointer” are interchangeable on a modern computer system because the object on the screen that shows the current cursor location changes depending on context.
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