EvokerKing, There is a setting on Windows that lets you press a button (Ctrl by default) that will circle your mouse and get closer to door where your mouse is.
Zerush, (edited ) 
letsgo, There’s always xeyes of course.
Trekman10, 
I’ve always appreciated the Mac OS feature that makes the cursor really huge if you wiggle it back and forth for this very reason…
Trainguyrom, Microsoft’s Powertoys includes a feature where if you press Ctrl repeatedly your cursor becomes highlighted. Very handy!
CrowAirbrush, I just wiggle my mouse like an idiot until the cursor hits my vision, because you know…i’m in control of the input device.
frezik, Also helps if you make it a bright green or yellow to make it stand out.
ef9357, And now you know why it’s called a curser.
LucidNightmare, Does nobody just increase their cursor size…? 😂
IndefiniteBen, 
I use powertoys and have the mouse highlighting tool enable when I shake the cursor back and forth.
Before this tool I also moved it around so I could see it, now it becomes highlighted when I do.
Corr, Saving this to come back to it. Seems very handy
Trainguyrom, PowerToys is awesome
Pyrrhichios, Didn’t know about this Powertoys feature, neat - think Windows actually has a built-in option you can toggle where if you hold down shift (or possibly ctrl? Haven’t had cause to use it for ages) it’ll highlight the cursor with a bright circle.
IndefiniteBen, Isn’t that a Windows 11 thing?
Pyrrhichios, Nah, it’s definitely available in 10 - used to use it a lot on my dual monitor setup at work and that’s still not upgraded to 11. Fell out of the habit of dual monitoring during the pandemic so it hasn’t really been necessary since…
Spudwart, Keyboard Focused Tiling Window Manager Users: 🤷
Hexarei, 
Yeah, this is me. With
unclutterinstalled to hide the cursor anyway. My cursor just follows the middle of whatever window I have focused at the time in i3wm
Dagwood222, A coworker showed me how to add the comet tail.
my_hat_stinks, I switched to a custom black cursor a few years ago (Posy’s cursor mono block if anyone’s curious) and it’s so much easier to find. I also added the ping when I hit control, but that’s less useful and a bit distracting in games.
Sailing7, You can natively change the color and size of your courser in windows 10 and 11. No need for thirdparty tools.
Did that. Never looked back. I never lost my courser on a white background again.
Size: 2 or 3
Color: orange.
Impossible to miss.
my_hat_stinks, Sure, but the downside there is you’ve got a big orange cursor.
Sailing7, I dont see a downside here. Orange is beautiful. :3
Player2, I use the windows built in large inverted color cursor. Easier to find and I like how it reacts to whatever color it’s on currently
Zerush, The Ctrl key shows where the cursor is, easy.
Dagwood222, TIL
RupertMcClanahan, If you enable it in mouse settings
Zerush, Recommended
achance4cheese, I have it enabled as much as possible, also helps for recording how to videos, especially when not recording instructions.
Anonymousllama, All 3 monitors slightly off brightness, exactly like my monitors regardless of how many times I fiddle with them!
bappity, 
my pc has a glitch right now where the cursor ACTUALLY goes invisible until I move it to the other monitor and back…
Shadow, 
My coworkers make fun of me when I share my zoom screen and my cursor is big and bright green. I never lose my mouse cursor though.
regular_human, 
Big cursor gang
IndiBrony, 
I enabled the feature that shows you where the cursor is with a big circle when you press Ctrl. Works like a charm.
Agent641, Powertoys!
DrM, It’s a default windows setting
Tylith, 
This was driving me crazy so I made the cursor big and inverted colors, no problems finding it now. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf6495f0-a002-41d8-b600-eace89c7444d.png
Zerush, At the beginning I also inverted it, but I have changed it to red, it also looks very good and also good if you want to indicate something in a Screenshot
Odiousmachine, I do this as well. Really helps when you share your screen and want to show where your cursor is.
Rodeo, How much time are you people losing to this? It takes me less than a second to find my cursor again.
Shadow, I have 3 high res monitors and the middle is an ultra wide, so there’s quite a bit of area to scan for what is normally a tiny cursor.
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