Ever lose your mouse cursor? It’s not laborious to do if you’ve sitting in entrance of a number of displays or maybe a super-ultrawide or perhaps even a monstrous TV — however Microsoft has an incredible keyboard shortcut that may immediately floor your cursor, and I lately discovered it purely accidentally.

I used to be tapping away on my keyboard when impulsively my screens dimmed — apart from one tiny disc of sunshine. It seems I’d by chance double-pressed Ctrl, which triggers the Find My Mouse characteristic in Microsoft’s wonderful non-obligatory PowerToys.

Here’s what that appears like up shut:

And right here’s a tough concept of what it appears to be like like with my triple-monitor rig:

For one thing so easy, it’s extremely efficient — the highlight immediately attracts my consideration to the place my cursor is, the dimming impact makes it completely clear the place it isn’t. As somebody who used to wildly wag my mouse cursor round to seek out it throughout three screens, I’m discovering it coming in helpful virtually day by day.

My solely query is: why isn’t this constructed into Windows 11? For now, you’ll have to download and install PowerToys from GitHub in order for you it. I’m an enormous fan; I’ve used its extremely customizable FancyZones window supervisor to snap home windows into completely sized positions throughout my screens for properly over a yr now.

The Find My Mouse characteristic doesn’t require any extra setup, as I by chance found myself. As lengthy as PowerToys is up and working at startup, double-tapping Ctrl ought to do it. Microsoft’s support page does present a number of methods to tweak it, although.