Re: [h-e-w] Cursor changed back to bar...suspect voodoo

[Jason Rumney]

Sarir Khamsi wrote:
> I'm trying to change my cursor back to a box and don't seem to have
> much luck. Even when typing "emacs -Q" I still get a vertical bar
> (where I think the default is a box). I'm running GNU Emacs 22.2.1 on
> WinXP/SP 2. The Cygwin Emacs seems to be fine. Any ideas?
>   

Do you have screen reading software running? Assistive software needs 
the standard Windows caret to assist it in finding the position on 
screen you are looking at, so Emacs uses the system caret by default 
when it detects that such software is running.