Updated! Having a hard time spotting that itty-bitty mouse cursor on your PC or Mac display? You’re not the only one. Indeed, as computer displays get bigger and sharper, on-screen mouse pointers keep getting tinier and tinier. Will they eventually shrink down to nothing? Good question.

Well, there’s an easy way to save both your eyesight and your sanity: by dipping into your system settings and boosting the size of the mouse pointer. Here’s how to do it.

Boost the size of the mouse cursor on a Windows 10 PC

First, let’s head for the Settings screen by clicking the Start button, then click the Settings icon (the one that looks like a gear). Once you’re on the Setting screen, click Devices, click Mouse in the left column, then click the blue “Additional mouse options” link (under the Related Settings heading). Doing so will open the Mouse Properties window.

Next, click the Pointers tab, then click the drop-down Scheme menu to reveal your cursor options. Among them: Windows Standard (a white cursor with a thin black outline), Windows Black (a black cursor), and Windows Inverted (a black cursor that inverts its color as it passes over windows, icons, and other items on the screen).

Related: How to find a hidden mouse cursor on your desktop

Each cursor scheme comes in three sizes: regular, large, and extra large. Pick the cursor you like (the bigger the better), then click the Apply button.

To make the cursor even more obvious, try clicking the “Enable pointer shadow” checkbox.

Boost the size of the mouse pointer on a Mac

Open the Apple menu (just click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of the page), then select System Preferences.

Click the Accessibility icon, select Display in the left column, then try moving the Cursor Size slider; when you do, the mouse cursor will start to grow, and grow, and grow. Satisfied? Just close the window.

I love the feeling of whizzing around my Windows 10 desktop, opening and closing windows, trashing files, renaming folders and more, all without touching a mouse. Read on for 10 ultra-handy things you can do using Windows keyboard shortcuts.

When was the last time you gave the trash can on your Windows desktop any thought? Not recently, I’m guessing. But if you take a closer look, you’ll find the humble Windows Recycle Bin has a few cool tricks up its sleeves.

Read on for four gotta-try Windows Recycle Bin features, from making the recycle bin empty itself automatically to putting trashed files back where you got them.

1. Delete files from the Windows Recycle Bin immediately

When you toss a file in the recycle bin, it doesn’t actually get deleted right away. Instead, it’ll sit in the trash—and take up space on your hard drive—until you empty it manually or until it hits a preset limit (which I’ll cover in a moment).

Of course, keeping trashed files on your system temporarily is a good idea in case you change your mind later. But if you’re positive you want to ditch a file right away, you can skip the recycle bin and delete it immediately.

One way to do it is to right-click it, hold down the SHIFT key, and then select “Delete” from the pop-up menu.

Want all the files you delete to be trashed permanently and skip the can? Right-click the recycle bin, select “Properties,” then click the “Don’t move files to the Recycle Bin” option.

2. Set a size limit

Let’s say you do want to temporarily keep deleted files in the recycle bin. That’s fine, so long as you remember to take out the trash once in a while. But who wants to bother with that? Me neither.

Well, you can always set a size limit for the recycle bin. Once the total size of your deleted items hits the limit, the recycle bin will automatically toss the oldest files.

Here’s how you do it:

• Right-click the recycle bin, then select “Properties.”
• Make sure the “Custom size” option is selected, then choose a maximum size—anything up to the total size of your hard drive.
• Click the “Apply” button, then click “OK” to close the settings window. You’re done!

3. Put trashed items back where you found them

So, you dumped a bunch of files in the recycle bin but you’re having second thoughts. Now what?

You could just open the recycle bin, pluck the items out and drop them onto your desktop. A handy alternative, though, is to let Windows send the file back to its original location.

Just open the recycle bin, select the file you want to “un-delete,” click the Manage menu at the top of the recycle bin window, then click the “Restore the selected items” button. You can also click the “Restore all items” button to put everything in the recycle bin back where it was.

4. Hide the Windows Recycle Bin from your desktop

Don’t want the recycle bin icon cluttering up your desktop? You can hide it in just a few clicks.

Click the Windows button in the bottom-left corner of the screen, then click Settings (it’s the icon on the side that looks like a little gear), Personalization, Themes (look in the left column), scroll down to the Related Settings heading, then click “Desktop icon settings.”

Now, see the Recycle Bin checkbox? Uncheck it, then click the Apply button; once you do, the Recycle Bin icon will disappear from your desktop.

To get the Recycle Bin back (and remember, it’s not really gone, just hidden from your desktop), check the Recycle Bin box, then click Apply again.

Is your Windows 10 hard drive starting to feel a bit cramped? A quick way to clear some hard drive space is to haul out the junk—that is, temporary files, old program setup files, cached thumbnails, and other bits of digital detritus that pile up over time. Read on for an easy way to clean junk files off your PC.

I just ran a utility that lives in the Windows Control Panel—the classic Control Panel, not the slick new Settings screen for Windows 10—and found more than five gigabytes of unneeded files on my hard drive.

Among the biggest space hogs that Disk Cleanup found on my system were several gigabytes worth of so-called “temporary files,” or spare data from my various programs that are supposed to be regularly purged.

The tool also found 274 MB of setup files used by Microsoft Office (which you don’t really need as long as you have your physical Office DVDs handy, or if you’re an Office 365 subscriber), 183 MB of “system error memory dump files” (which you can safely deep-six), and 164 MB of temporary Internet files, not to mention 116 MB of garbage sitting in the desktop recycle bin.

The Disk Cleanup tool gives you a nice overview of all the junk files on your Windows 10 system, with files that you can delete without a second thought already checked. You can also click on other items in the list and decide whether you keep them or lose them after reading a brief description.

Getting started with the Disk Cleanup tool

First, right-click the Start menu in the bottom-left corner of the screen, then click Control Panel.

Next, click the System and Security heading, then click the “Free up disk space” link under the Administrative Tools section. If your PC has more than one hard drive installed, you’ll be asked which disk you want to sweep up.

Related: Slow PC startup? You Windows startup programs may be to blame 

In a second or two, the Disk Cleanup utility should open, complete with a summary of potential files to delete in your Windows “user” account and the grand total of disk space they’re using.

How to pick junk files to clean up

If you want to play it safe, you can stick to deleting the items that Windows has already checked for you—most likely “Downloaded Program Files” (basically, temporary helper files for viewing specific web pages), “Temporary Internet Files” (a cache of old web pages stored on your computer to speed your browsing), and Thumbnails (the tiny icon images used for music, videos, pictures, and other documents on your hard drive, which your system can always regenerate later). Just click the “OK” button to begin the cleanup.

Want to zap even more junk off your hard drive? Click the “Clean up system files” button, and Windows will scour your entire hard drive for old files to delete—previous Windows installations, for example, or file fragments that were saved following automatic hard-drive maintenance.

Click each item in the list, read its description, and check the box next to the items you want deleted. Once you’re all set, click the “OK” button. Keep in mind that some “junk” files may actually come in handy in certain situations, so read the file descriptions carefully before doing a clean sweep.

Bonus tip

After clicking the “Clean up system files” button, you can also click the “More Options” tab to check for rarely-used programs or old system “restore” points to delete.

Also, it’s always a good idea to back up your system before you start purging files. Check out Microsoft’s Windows support site for its official back-up instructions.