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Left Handed Mouse Cursors

Anonymous
2022-10-12T19:41:06+00:00

For years, I have been using left handed mouse pointers that I created myself. These, and others, have been freely available for download for years. However, Microsoft has recently taken away the ability to use third party mouse cursors, and so now, I find it extremely difficult to work, as the pointers are all pointing backwards.

Microsoft is discriminating against left handed people by not allowing us the required accessibility option of using pointers that are flipped horizontally to go along with the switched buttons.

I was on with their support today for TWO HOURS, and no help whatsoever. I was told by one person that Microsoft has chosen options to give users the best experience (and they've obviously failed miserably, as they don't seem to care at all about the best experience for left handed people), and another next level tech was shocked that I didn't have the option of changing my mouse cursors anymore.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Accessibility

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  1. MR_MEOW 3,536 Reputation points
    2022-10-14T12:03:03+00:00

    Hello I am a [XDA-DEVLOPER]. I would like to try help out if i can. I am a person with an disability and understand completely why you neeeed things a certain way. For mouse settings. I must ask Do you require the mouse buttons to be reversed. (Left button = Right button) ect. I use a custom mouse cursor mine is an image of a cute little kitty. haha. As far as I know the mouse cursors are located under system32. If you go to C:\Windows\System32\control. exe the mouse menu should be available to modify to change the icons and buttons around.

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