How to set Cursor blink rate = 1, or 1/2 second?

Question

In windows, the cursor blink rate setting is not related to seconds. Is there a way to make it?

Answer 1

I guess they want you to pick it visually, but in the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\CursorBlinkRate you can see it's a value in milliseconds.

Here are the values going from the leftmost slider notch to the right:

• Never blink
• 1.2 seconds
• 1.1 seconds
• 1 second
• 0.9 seconds
• 0.8 seconds
• 0.7 seconds
• 0.6 seconds
• 0.5 seconds
• 0.4 seconds
• 0.3 seconds
• 0.2 seconds

The default value is 530, so based on what the GUI shows us you'll need to manually edit the key to get that magic number back.