how to change color of text select cursor windows 10

I am pretty sure, there are several people, who are often lost while editing documents, and that is why the latest update to Windows 10, i.e May 2020 is here with small change, which can make it a lot easier at the time of Editing documents. But, when we need to make a lot of changes within a document we might get lost and that is when we need to find out where we were in order to keep editing the document and keep it up to the mark.

After we complete a document, we often need to make changes before finally submitting it or using it for some reason or the other. Very annoying.Writing down and editing documents is something that we all do on our computers. It surely resolves the issue with the cursor invisibility, but it creates (on my system) a new problem: the Host and Guest OSs don't have their cursor perfectly aligned anymore, which results in an impossibility to use the top toolbar of the VM Player when my VM is maximized. So I looked at disabling cursor h/w accelleration (like others suggested in this thread). and I don't know how to changes these MS Word specific mouse cursor shapes (I am still looking). That means I would need to change all these icons as well if I want MS Word (and the Word-enabled MS Outlook editor) to never suffer from cursor invisibility. I realized that MS Word also has many different 'Select Text' icons that are slight variations derived from the default Windows one And they all disappear the same way (they are all as thin as the original Windows one). You can access these mouse pointer schemes through the 'Pointers' tab of the 'Mouse Properties' of your XP guest OS. So in my case, I saved a copy of the 'Windows Default (system scheme)' into a new 'My Default Scheme', and then I edited the 'Text Select' pointer of my new scheme to use the 'beam_r.cur' cursor representation (which seems to be slightly thicker than the default one).

Anyway, the solution is to replace this pointer graphical representation with some other cursor shape that's slightly larger. For some reason, it seems the default Text Select cursor is too thin to show on my laptop screen (it shows well on my desktop running the same XP guest though). the 'Text Select' cursor was invisible in my XP guest OS.

How to change color of text select cursor windows 10