/ShakeMouseToLocate

Quickly move the mouse pointer left and right to make it temporarily bigger (Windows)

Primary LanguageAutoIt

Shake Mouse To Locate (Windows)

Shake or circle the mouse quickly and a big mouse will show for a short while. This will help you find back the mouse cursor.

Forked by Nicolas de Jong (nicolas@rutilo.nl) Original by Spinal Cord (http://spinalcode.co.uk/)

Altered because the original showed the big mouse too often. Now it shows only after moving the mouse pointer left and right quickly a few times.

Also added flags for autostart, enabled, ctrl and sensitivity.

Name and tooltip were chosen to coincide with the Mac feature this is similar to.

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Note

This application is created using AutoIt. Its scripts are sometimes flagged as being a virus. While it is quite possible to write viruses with AutoIt, this application is certainly not. If you feel more confident compiling the source code that you checked for naughty bits, install AutoIt, load the ShakeMouseToLocate.au3 in the AutoIt SciTE-Lite editor and select Tools, Build. That will generate the exe as well.