My Cursor Keeps Turning White in Microsoft Word Without Typing

Anonymous
2022-08-15T21:33:58+00:00

My cursor keeps turning white in Microsoft Word 2016 (I bought lifetime access), even without typing. I already tried changing the cursor settings so that it wouldn't disappear when typing, but that didn't do anything. After a few seconds the text selection cursor will turn white, and, if I hover over dark text, I can see the cursor outline. This has been happening in multiple documents, so not an isolated incident.

This started after a Microsoft update which forced me to log back into my Microsoft account to use Word about a week or two ago. I've tried everything I can find on the internet, but no luck yet. It's very hard to get work done if I can't see my cursor in Word, so what do I need to do to fix this issue so I can get back to work?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-11-30T07:25:43+00:00

    Hi, guys. I have got a new, simple and complete solution from a sensor tech supporter of Lenovo. It works perfectly for me. The followings are the details.

    1. Open Notebook， and fill it in with the following Code, as shown in Figure：

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm]

    "OverlayTestMode"=dword:00000005

    1. Save the file with the format”.reg“, the name is arbitrary, for example as FixCursorBug.
    2. Double-click the FixCursorBug.reg, and continue till new Infos are merged into the registry.
    3. Restart the OS.
    4. Test and enjoy it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-11-30T08:42:16+00:00

    Hi, guys. I have got a new, simple and complete solution from a sensor tech supporter of Lenovo. It works perfectly for me. The followings are the details.

    1. Open Notebook， and fill it in with the following Code, as shown in Figure：

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm]

    "OverlayTestMode"=dword:00000005

    1. Save the file with the format”.reg“, the name is arbitrary, for example as FixCursorBug.
    2. Double-click the FixCursorBug.reg, and continue till new Infos are merged into the registry.
    3. Restart the OS.
    4. Test and enjoy it.

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    You are a LEGEND! This problem was getting  under my skin ever since I installed Windows 11. There were some unpleasant workarounds, but jeez. No real help from the windows professionals. The problem seems to be Windows 11. If I work from home, I need to log in by a Citrix environment and my company runs Windows 10. If I log in via my personal computer with windows 11, I had the same problem in Windows 10. But working from a Windows 10 computer gave no problems.

    ppl this is the Solution!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-11-30T13:33:25+00:00

    Hi, guys. I have got a new, simple and complete solution from a sensor tech supporter of Lenovo. It works perfectly for me. The followings are the details.

    1. Open Notebook， and fill it in with the following Code, as shown in Figure：

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm]

    "OverlayTestMode"=dword:00000005

    1. Save the file with the format”.reg“, the name is arbitrary, for example as FixCursorBug.
    2. Double-click the FixCursorBug.reg, and continue till new Infos are merged into the registry.
    3. Restart the OS.
    4. Test and enjoy it.

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    As someone who isn't incredibly technical like this, could you please explain what each part of this does before I try testing it? I don't want to implement something without understanding it better (just in case something else goes wrong afterwards).

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-11-30T14:04:45+00:00

    I am not official stuff. Based on my knowledge, you can restore to the default setting by replacing the "dword:00000005" with "-". The item mainly refers to OpenGL of the GPU driver. You can wait until AMD provides a new version of its driver which fixed this problem.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-01T05:11:51+00:00

    The code can be found here, which has been written as REG files, just download and run it.

    The code is provided by Nvidia, but also valid on my AMD GPU.

    https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157

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