Way OT: Changing Cursor Color

JackW wrote on 11/20/2009, 5:15 PM
Is it possible to change the size and color of the Windows cursor?

We often tape medical presentations at one of the local hospitals. The doctors work from their own laptops, the images a combination of medical slides, PowerPoint materials and operating room videos. Graphics can have backgrounds ranging from black, with white letters to white with black letters.

We shoot the doctor with one camera, the screen with another since we frequently can't get access to the original graphic materials.

We carry a couple of different colored laser pointers, which some doctors are willing to use, but many prefer to sit at their laptops and use the computer cursor on the graphics. The little bitty white cursor doesn't show up very well against the graphic materials in many cases.

Is there any way to make the cursor bigger, or a different color? I haven't seen anything in XP that suggests this as a possibility.

Thanks in advance.

Jack

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ushere wrote on 11/20/2009, 5:21 PM
you could try high contrast / visually impaired settings.

don't have xp anymore, but i did have a visually impaired client client who had a 'big' cursor on his laptop.

i think there's a whole range of such things under accessibility?
JackW wrote on 11/20/2009, 5:52 PM
Thanks, Leslie. I discovered the solution on-line about two minutes after you posted.
Turns out it's also possible to invert the cursor color so that when it hovers over a white object the cursor turns black, dark gray over a light blue, etc. This, combined with the extra large cursor, should do the trick.

Now all I have to do is convince doctors to let me change the settings on their laptops. That should be fun!

Jack