Changing cursor blink speed 1

[chifu]

Any know if it is possible to change the speed the cursor blinks at in applications like Word. Running on Citrix I find it sometimes takes too long for the blink to occur and looks as if the cursor is missing.

 

[4MULA1]

Blinking cursors cause unnecessary bandwidth use because every blink requires data packets to be transmitted. Applications that do not use a blinking cursor or that allow the blinking cursor to be disabled are preferred.

A blinking cursor on the remote client session will cause continuous client/server traffic. This may not be a problem in many environments, but if connections are made over, for instance, a dial-on-demand router, excessive line charges can be incurred.

If this does not apply to your environment, then can you not speed up the blinking cursor through Control Panel - Keyboard - Cursor Blinking Rate? or is there a policy in place that prevents this?

Good Luck

 

[Illuvatar]

Change the following registry key:
HKCU/Control Panel/Desktop/CursorBlinkRate = -1

Best way to do this is to edit default user with the registry editor. Than save the registry key and use regedit /s filename.reg in the Usrlogn2.cmd for a user to get this regkey changed during logon.

 

[rezinz28]

I found by apply this to the current user registry was to time consuming so I applied it to the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Winstations\ICA-tcp\UserOverride\Control Panel\Destop
CursorBlinkRate = -1 To turn it off for the anyone connecting to this server via the ICA-tcp connection.
Then you don't need to add it to any script
Good Luck,
Steve