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Get better cursor control in Windows
As I get older my mouse control is getting shakier, so I find it harder to place the cursor exactly where I want it.
Someone in my local computing club (meeting again in person – hooray!) suggested turning off a feature in Windows called ‘mouse acceleration’. This option is meant to sharpen the precision of the cursor, but apparently for many people it has the opposite effect.
I thought it was worth trying, so I pressed Windows key+I to open Settings, then clicked Mouse on the left, and ‘Additional mouse options’ in the middle. I then unticked ‘Enhance pointer precision’ and clicked Apply at the bottom.
The effect was
