Make The Cursor Be Bold

If you often write with Notepad, you have known that notepad has a blinking cursor to help you knowing the location where you have to start to write. Unfortunately, the cursor has not a wide enough size. It’s so thin because Windows gives it width to one pixel. In many times, I am so hard to finding it. But you can make it be wider.
We need to hack the registry to make it wider.

  1. Open Registry Editor by click Start -> Run, enter regedit in box and then press Enter key.

    2. Open Registry Editor

  2. Drives to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop path.

    3. Registry path

  3. In Desktop key, find CaretWidth value.

    4. CaretWidth value

  4. Double click it to modify its value data. You can see it that Windows XP gives it standard value data to 1. If you want make it wider, just increase the value data such as 3. Just replace the default value to 3 and then click OK button.

    5. Modify its value data

  5. Close Registry Editor and then restart the computer.
  6. Try to open Notepad and your cursor has been modified.

    7. Result

To bring it back, just give CaretWidth value to 1.

(article no:0157)

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