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Mouse pointers and Cursors in Windows 7

After the keyboard, which has a limited amount of "customize-ability", the mouse is the most frequently used tool, or external peripheral, with Windows 7. These tutorials will focus on configuring your mouse's options from acceleration and cursor visibility, to creating your own cursor themes, or "schemes", saving them, and how to backup or export them to another Windows 7 PC.

Overview of our cursor and mouse pointer tutorials

We will start by showing you how to use and customize cursor schemes to switch the appearance and size of your mouse pointers in Windows 7 - for the most part, this is done in much the same way you could configure your mouse and cursors in previous versions of Windows.

Aside from the appearance of the mouse (the cursor you see on screen), we'll explain some functionality settings you can tweak to make your mouse faster or easier to use, how to change your cursor blink rate, make the mouse pointer move automatically to a default button, or even how to make your mouse automatically scroll through web pages and documents.

• Mouse pointers and Cursors
• Customize / change mouse pointer (cursor) scheme / theme
• Use a custom cursor file (*.CUR or *.ANI) for pointer schemes / themes
• Allow or prevent themes from changing your mouse pointers (cursors) scheme
• Show or hide the shadow under the cursor (mouse pointer)
• Make your mouse pointer go faster or slower (cursor move speed settings)
• Hide your mouse pointer (cursor) while typing
• Make the cursor (mouse pointer) larger and easier to see
• Animate your mouse cursor movements ("pointer trails")
• Change the number of lines your mouse wheel scrolls up/down
• Switch / invert the right and left mouse buttons (reverse right-click button)
• Change the double-click speed of your mouse button
• Save a cursor scheme (custom mouse pointers theme)
• Backup or export a custom cursor scheme (mouse pointers theme)
• Transfer / import a custom cursor scheme (mouse pointers theme)
• Rename or delete a cursor scheme (custom mouse pointers themes)
• Make your cursor automatically move and go to default buttons
• Change cursor blink rate / Prevent insertion point from blinking
• Make your text insertion point (blinking cursor) thicker or thinner
• Move your mouse pointer (cursor) with the keyboard ("MouseKeys")
• Where are cursors stored? Location of mouse pointers folder
• Make your mouse scroll automatically through pages / documents (Windows 7 / Vista / XP)
• How to test and preview a cursor (mouse pointer)
• Windows 7 Tutorial