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You can use these hidden gems to reassign or disable keys on your keyboard, detect pixel colours in a website, display a Windows short-cut key guide … and much more!
- Power Toys: tools to tweak the behaviour of Windows
- Using the colour picker
- The keyboard manager
- Using the mouse utilties to find your mouse (this blog)
- The Windows key shortcut guide
Posted by Andy Brown on 20 January 2022
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Using the mouse utilties to find your mouse
Lost your mouse? Here's how to find it:
The Power Toys mouse utilities screen.
When you press the Ctrl key twice with Enable Find My Mouse turned on, a searchlight beam follows your mouse pointer:
This is a poor quality image because I had to take a photograph of my screen - any attempt to use SnagIt, the Windows Snipping Tool or the PrtSc button made the circle vanish!
The mouse highlighter is a bit more annoying:
Wherever you click Windows shows where your mouse is using your requested colour.
- Power Toys: tools to tweak the behaviour of Windows
- Using the colour picker
- The keyboard manager
- Using the mouse utilties to find your mouse (this blog)
- The Windows key shortcut guide