It is a lightweight app with a little footprint and won’t tax your system resources.Īs you can see in the screenshot above, it is easy to change the display and highlight the color of the mouse pointer with just a few clicks. The app will work the moment you launch it and stop working when you close the app. The second is that you can customize the color and other details.ĭownload Mouse Pointer Highlightfrom the Microsoft Store and install the app. One is that this is a desktop app and hence would work in all apps and browsers. Similar name and function but with few notable changes. Related: How to Control Mouse Pointer with Keyboard on Windows 10 3. Just click on the extension icon once to give the necessary permissions. Note that the extension would need permission for every site you visit but only once. And the other is that you can’t customize the appearance and color of the highlight. One is that it only works within the browser. There are two problems with the extension but it may work for you. See that red circle in the screenshot above? That’s where my pointer was and every time I clicked on a link, I saw another, smaller blue circle, appear right at the center of the red one. If you are worried about privacy and security, don’t be as the project is open-sourced and available on GitHub. Various attempts at restarting with the Thunderbolt display attached, detached, etc, had no effect.Download the Mouse Pointer Highlighter extension from the Chrome Web Store and install it.
In looking at Windows display settings, it appeared that the Win 10 VM believed that it was running on a monitor with the resolution of my retina laptop's display. Restarted the machine multiple times, but this did not fix the issue. * Restarted, launched Parallels, and mouse pointer was huge. Windows or Parallels crashed, and I needed to do a force quit, which took a long time to complete. * Try to put the Mac to sleep (with Parallels VM still running). * Attach Thunderbolt monitor, and wake machine. * Running Windows 10 in non-coherence mode on the retina display. So, the following scenario lead to the giant mouse pointer: In the case of the big mouse pointer, I failed to follow said protocol.Īs far as I can tell, this issue is due to switching monitors, which in my case, involves either using my Macbook's integrated retina display, or my Apple Thunderbolt display. Note that in general, if I move between using my Thunderbolt display and my Macbook's retina display, I try to shut down my Parallels VM first, and restart it once the monitor change has been made. This fixed the huge mouse pointer problem for me: enter Coherence mode, and then exit Coherence mode.
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