Change Mouse Pointers in Windows 8

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   The first thing that we need to do is right-click on the lower left corner of the screen, then click on "Control Panel"

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   When the Control Panel opens, we need to click "Hardware and Sound"

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   In this section, click "Mouse" in the "Devices and Printers" category

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   When the menu opens, we need to click the "Pointers" tab

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   From here, we can either select the scheme of the pointers or customize them one-by-one.

   

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   For example, if we choose a scheme, all of the icons will change if we click "Apply"

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   If we want to change them separately, we have to double-click on the icon that we want to change in the "Customize" area

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   For example, we'll scroll down and change the "Link Select" icon.

   

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   Now we can choose from all of the available icons here

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   If we have any custom icons, we can browse to that directory and select it from there. Double-click a pointer to choose it.

   

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   Once we have customized everything according to our preferences, we can click "Apply" then "OK"

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   We can now close the "Hardware and Sound" window

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    This concludes the tutorial on how to change mouse pointers on a Windows 8 computer

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