{"id":1119,"date":"2010-12-29T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2011-02-21T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:47:37","slug":"how-to-get-rid-of-a-blinking-black-cursor-box-on-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/how-to-get-rid-of-a-blinking-black-cursor-box-on-your-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get rid of a blinking black cursor box on your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AccessOptions300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AccessOptions300.jpg\" alt=\"Accessibility Options\" title=\"Accessibility Options\" width=\"300\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AccessOptions300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AccessOptions300-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/AccessOptions300-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Do you have a blinking black cursor box where you usually just have a blinking line?  Did this just show up out of nowhere?  Pretty annoying, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, luckily this is an easy fix.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to START>CONTROL PANEL<\/li>\n<li>Double-click on ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS<\/li>\n<li>Click on the DISPLAY tab<\/li>\n<li>Under CURSOR OPTIONS, move the bar under WIDTH all the way to the &#8220;Narrow&#8221; side.<\/li>\n<li>Click OK<\/li>\n<li>Close the CONTROL PANEL window by clicking the red X in the upper right corner of the window<\/li>\n<li>Done!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yup!  It&#8217;s that easy.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/services\/\">Los Angeles Computer Repair<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/services\/\">Los Angeles Computer Tech<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/services\/\">Computer Repair Services<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a blinking black cursor box where you usually just have a blinking line? Did this just show up out of nowhere? Pretty annoying, isn&#8217;t it? Well, luckily this is an easy fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[378,381,379,380],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-blinking-black-box","tag-blinking-black-box-where-the-cursor-is","tag-blinking-black-cursor-box","tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}