How to Highlight Mouse Pointer Windows 10

Hi everyone I am Salai Zo Sangpy 

here today i want to show you how you can highlight your mouse cursor

the benefit of highlighting your mouse

cursor is it makes it easier for people

to follow along with what you're explaining 

so they can see where your mouse goes they can more

easily see what you're clicking on.

this is something that's valuable.. if let's say you're doing 

a screen recording with some type of instruction like i'm doing right now.

or maybe you're on a teams a zoom or google meeting where you're trying to explain

some concept and you want people to follow along with what you're explaining.

the good news is it's pretty easy to create a highlight around your cursor

and i'm going to show you two different ways how you can do that

without installing any software

all we're going to do is we're going to load a cursor file into windows.

 

now when you look at your mouse on windows

that's really just what's called a cursor file so it's kind of like 

a png or a gif or a jpeg and we're simply going to insert a

cursor that has a halo around it so that's the easiest way to do.  

it the mouse cursor but honestly that's the easy way to it

won't require installing anything in the sametime you will be 

very satisfying with this method,

all right  lets get to the point and i'll show you how to highlight

your pointer here i am on my pc and first off i want

to show you how you can add a halo around your mouse

using functionality that's native to windows

so first off let's go ahead to the

taskbar on the bottom and within the search field go ahead and

type in mouse this will bring up the best match for

mouse settings let's go ahead and click on that this opens up 

the mouse settings dialog and within this dialog

let's go over onto the right hand side

and click on additional mouse options this opens up our mouse

properties. there are a whole bunch of tabs across the top

let's click on the one that says pointers once we click on pointers

you'll see all the default windows pointer icons so you're probably familiar 

with this and it shows all the different

variations depending on the situation that you're

in on windows what i want to do is i want to add a

halo around this mouse cursor something like I use right now.

now windows by default comes with a whole bunch of different schemes

for instance you could add any cursor you want there are lots of different options here 

however by default windows doesn't have one that includes a halo around it 

but don't worry each one of these files here this is simply an image file or a cursor file

and what we want to do is we want to find a cursor file that has a halo around it

so where do we find a cursor file with a halo around it.

well there are lots of websites online that let you download cursor files 

and one of my favorites is called real world designer 

here's the real world designer website you can navigate

there by going to rw-designer.com i also have a link in the description on this

video if you just want to click on this website there's lots of valuable contents here.

In this website not only we download cursor images on this site

but they also provide software.

so let's go ahead and see what others

have already created i'm going to go ahead and up on this top

tab here i'm going to click on gallery within the gallery you'll see a wide

assortment of different cursor files you could change your cursors

to any one of these different options so you have lots of different options 

let's say you want this or you want something elds you

can basically go through here to your heart's content and

find something that matches your personality

i want to get a halo around my mouse so let's go ahead and search for

cursor highlight once it comes up i see a whole bunch of

options here i'm going to go ahead and order this by downloads 

so i see what is the most popular here i see a whole bunch of cursors that

have halos around them i can choose my color whether i want to

go with any colour i can even get a set of cursors

in this case just to keep things simple

i'm going to go ahead and download the highlight cursor.cur file when i click on it this brings me

to the download page it's a very small file it's only 4.2 kilobytes 

and it's a dot .cur which mean is ac cursor file now you don't have to worry about

downloading this type of file there's really no risk to your computer

it's simply a data file.

let's go ahead and download this file

my highlight cursor has finished downloading i'm going to right click on

this and i'm going to show it in my download folder

i see here that the highlight cursor is

in my download folder  i could just leave it here and then

browse to it in the mouse settings but if i'm planning on using this moving

forward i'd rather put it in a more permanent location

and i want to put it alongside all of my other cursor files what i'm going to do

is press control x to cut this item i could also right click

and then i'm going to go down to cut you could also copy if you want to do that

but if you copy it'll leave the original file in your downloads folder

i'm going to go ahead and cut 

next i'm going to click on my c-drive this is where i have windows

installed and i'm going to click on my windows folder

and within windows there's another subfolder called cursors

if we click on that you'll see all of your different cursor files that you

have on your computer i'm going to go ahead now and right

click and i'm going to paste my new cursor file in there

it'll ask you to provide administrator

permissions because you are modifying a folder

within windows and i'm going to go ahead and click on continue

so now you see that i have a new file alongside all my other cursor files

called highlight cursor so that looks good 

let me jump back into settings back in settings now what i want to do

is when i have normal select highlighted

this is my standard mouse cursor i'm

going to go to browse and within browse now i want to browse

to the new file that i just added so i'm going to type in highlight cursor

that'll bring me directly down to the file and now i'm going to click on open one

of the things you'll see now is it has my mouse cursor with the halo around it

as the normal select icon or the cursor one thing i could do

now that i've loaded this in i could go ahead and save the scheme so

let me click on save as and i'm simply going to call this mouse

1halo highlight you can name whatever you want to name it

if i ever want to get rid of my mouse

cursor highlight i simply click up on scheme and then i can go down to none and

that'll restore the default again and that'll turn off the cursor highlighter

and let's say i'm doing my presentation and i want people to be able to follow

along more easily i simply click on scheme go to mouse 1halo highlight

now what i could do is i can click on apply and here now you'll see that 

my mouse cursor appears with halo highlight around it

once again once i'm done i go to no apply my halo is gone and here i 

can bring it back again that was the first easy way way to loading

a cursor file. so I hope you can follow along with me and If you have any

trouble or if you missed any kind of point let me know so I can answer you

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so here you go you have it now how you can highlight your mouse cursor in pc.

this method can be working in window 7- 8 and window 10

Thank You