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Is there a way to stop the cursor blinking in the Windows command prompt? I have tried setting blink speed to 'none' in Control Panel, but the bloody thing is still blinking me to insanity.

EDIT I didn't set the blink speed to 'none' properly. I did now and it works. I'll keep the question here anyway for future reference. /EDIT

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Options, options.

  1. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/blinkrate.aspx

  2. Noblink: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/noblink.html, TSR which allow no blinking cursors

  3. Console: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/, a better cmd.exe

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  • Console is not a better cmd.exe. In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with cmd. It's just a host for console processes. It doesn't care what process that is. Your second option will only work for command.com, I presume (can't test, since I'm on 64 bit)
    – Joey
    Jun 24, 2010 at 22:23
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All you need can be done as simply as issuing:

control main.cpl keyboard

from Run prompt (Win+R) and setting the:

Cursor blink rate to None either by mouse or by keyboard shortcuts of:

Alt+B and Left button.


Note

control keyword can be omitted.


control is actually the "short form" of:

c:\Windows\System32\control.exe

executable file which starts .cpl Control Panel files,

main.cpl being the argument file also residing in that directory.

:)

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You can run this command in Cmd and restart Cmd:

reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v CursorBlinkRate /t REG_SZ /d -1 /f

This will set the the value of Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop value CursorBlinkRate to -1. Which will stop Command Prompt cursor blinking.

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