COMPUTER TIPS

Disabling the Blinking Cursor in Computer Applications

 

 

 

If you are using any computer application, for example MS Word or MS FrontPage and you did not like blinking of cursor. You can stop the cursor from blinking in these applications to edit your computer registry keys, but be careful to work with computer registry.

Follow the given steps to stop cursor from blinking:

• First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

• Here locate the location to:

        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

• Here add the string value with name CursorBlink and value -1

• At the end restart your computer for this change.

        

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