Open Control Panel | Appearance and Personalization | Personalization | Change mouse pointers.

Thankfully the solution is quick and simple:

virtual development machine) via remote desktop. I’ve found that the problem is much more prevalent when access Visual Studio on another machine (e.g. Moving the mouse cursor outside of this area makes it visible again, and it seems that the mouse pointer is unaffected when using other applications and on the Windows desktop itself. When using Visual Studio the mouse cursor flickers badly or totally disappears when the mouse pointer is in the code editing area of Visual Studio (as shown in the screenshot below). I’ve seen this issue in the following versions of Visual Studio and the resolution is the same and works for them all:

The problem has been around for a few years now and I always have to search around for the steps to fix it each time it catches me. This is a problem I have come across each time I build a new virtual development machine with Visual Studio on it.

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