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From Leo's mailbag:

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: January 21, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: mouse pointers
>
> Leo,

> Somehow, my mother's computer text, or typing, cursor has
> become enlarged. It makes precise text copying or cutting
> very difficult. The cursor is five or so times normal
> "width". I have searched the internet for days trying to
> fing a cure. How do I get back to the "single line", or
> normal text cursor look? Please help and thank you sir!

First thing I would do is in Control Panel, Mouse hit the
"pointers" tab, and simply change the "Scheme" to anything
else. That should replace all pointers with new ones.

Hopefully the new ones will be normal sized :-).

Thanks for asking,

Leo

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