How to stop windows console cursors from blinking

Question

I know how to completely hide a cursor, But is their any way to just stop it from blinking? It's oddly disturbing...

I'm not gonna install 3rd party software for this, what I want is simple solution using few lines of C++.

Bennybenoit

Answer 1

Go to Run prompt (Win+R)

Paste into Open box:

control main.cpl keyboard

Press OK Keyboard properties dialog appears.

Set Cursor blink rate to None. Press OK

Maurreen

Now every single blinking cursors are gone from my PC lmao – Bennybenoit

Answer 2

For the record, by cmd you can do the same

You can save this code as desable_cursor_blink.cmd, and click/run...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00; [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]"CursorBlinkRate"="-1"
reg import %~f0

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• By command line, you also can try:

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

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Ludendorff