Windows 10 PowerToys: How to activate and use the Mouse utilities app

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With the merchandise of mentation 49, developers of Windows 10 PowerToys added a Mouse utilities app to the toolkit. We amusement you however it works and erstwhile to usage it.

Despite the continuing rotation retired of the Windows 11 update, users of Windows 10 inactive request their tweaks, hacks and inferior updates. One of the much almighty and utile sets of utilities and tools is the escaped Windows 10 PowerToys application. With the merchandise of mentation 49.1, the developers person added a caller inferior to the toolkit.

Mouse utilities volition yet adhd a implicit acceptable of caller mouse-related utilities designed to heighten the rodent and cursor functionality connected Windows systems. However, arsenic of this archetypal release, Mouse utilities contains a azygous simple, yet useful, feature.

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How to activate the Mouse utilities app successful Windows 10 PowerToys

Before you tin activate the Mouse utilities app of Windows 10 PowerToys, you indispensable archetypal download the current version of the toolkit. Once it is installed, click oregon pat the PowerToys icon successful the strategy tray of the taskbar to unfastened PowerToys, arsenic shown successful Figure A.

Figure A

Using the left-hand navigation bar, find the Mouse utilities point and click it. As you tin spot successful Figure B, the interface for this app is elemental and straightforward.

Figure B

Use the toggle power to alteration the Find My Mouse feature. If you play machine games, it is recommended that you cheque the container to disable the diagnostic erstwhile successful crippled mode.

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Once Find My Mouse is activated, 2 consecutive presses of the near CTRL cardinal volition find your rodent cursor and item its existent presumption with a halo, arsenic shown successful Figure C.

Figure C

The halo astir the rodent cursor volition stay until you property the Esc cardinal to disregard it.

This simple-to-use diagnostic could beryllium adjuvant during presentations wherever you privation to gully and absorption the attraction of your assemblage to a circumstantial portion of the screen.

Mouse utilities was developed and contributed to the Windows 10 PowerToys task by Raymond Chen.