As handy as the cursor is for navigating your system’s user interface, it can sometimes get lost due to its small size. This is especially true for people who find it difficult to clearly see things on their screen.

Furthermore, trying to find the little cursor on your display can put even more strain on the eyes. If you’re tired of losing your cursor, you may easily make it bigger from the settings, control panel, or even mouse properties.

Windows offers a pretty simple way to change thesize of your mouse cursorfrom settings. you may enlarge your cursor up to 220% of its default size, and you can even change its color.

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Another way you may make your mouse cursor bigger is from the Control Panel. While you can’t intuitively control the size of your cursor using this method, it does offer three preset templates of cursor sizes.

From Mouse Properties

Making your mouse bigger from Mouse Properties is pretty similar to doing the same from Control Panel. It also offers the same three preset cursor size templates that you may choose from.

How to Enlarge Text Cursor?

you may also sort of make your text cursor bigger on Windows computers. While the text cursor height will remain unchanged, you can increase its width. This will make your text cursor much thicker and easier to spot.

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However, the text cursor’s size change will not get reflected in all applications. Some applications like Chrome will still utilize the default text cursor even if its width is set to max.

Additionally, you may enable the text cursor indicator to make it even easier to spot. Doing so will add a quarter circle on each end of the text cursor, and you can also control its size.

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