{"id":16261,"date":"2019-02-11T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16261"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:04:06","slug":"easily-find-your-mouse-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/easily-find-your-mouse-pointer\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily Find Your Mouse Pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Easily Find Your Mouse Pointer\u00a0 (Mouse Sonar Tip)<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

We recently featured a tip<\/span><\/a> in response to a question from one of our readers about how to make the mouse pointer larger and easier to see. In response to that tip, David wrote to us about making the mouse pointer easier to find. And thanks to David’s reminder, we’re bringing back our Mouse Sonar Tip.<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt we are the only ones who call it the “Mouse Sonar Tip”, so don\u2019t go to your geeky neighbor and start talking about the Mouse Sonar Tip or she\u2019ll think you\u2019re crazy. We call it the sonar effect because of the circles Windows generates around your mouse pointer to help you find it.\u00a0 \u00a0The sonar effect causes your mouse pointer to pop-up in the center of circular rings so you can find it easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Windows 10 the sonar effect should be turned on by default. To find out if yours is turned on, press your Ctrl key right now. Did you see the circles appear around your mouse? If you did, you\u2019re all set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t see the circles around your mouse pointer,\u00a0 you can turn on the \u201csonar effect\u201d this way:<\/span><\/p>\n

Open Settings > Devices > Mouse > Related Settings > Additional mouse options.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span>
\nNote: If you open the Windows 10 Settings app full-screen, \u201cRelated settings\u201d \/ \u201cAdditional mouse options\u201d will appear on the far right side.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When the Mouse Properties dialog opens (see below) click on the Pointer Options tab,\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Make sure the box next to \u201cShow location of pointer when I press the CTRL key\u201d is checked.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next time you lose your mouse pointer, just press the CTRL key and Windows will create circles around your pointer to help you find it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hint:<\/strong> You might have to press the CTRL key a couple of times, the circles don\u2019t stay on the screen very long.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Easily Find Your Mouse Pointer\u00a0 (Mouse Sonar Tip) We recently featured a tip in response to a question from one of our readers about how to make the mouse pointer larger and easier to see. In response to that tip, David wrote to us about making the mouse pointer easier to find. And thanks to David’s reminder, we’re\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2934,2935,2932,2933,1727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16267,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions\/16267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}