Ever run into a Windows system which won’t boot and instead just sits at a black screen with a blinking cursor forever? Especially when the Windows system is a guest operating system in Microsoft Hyper-V. And frequently if that guest OS was recently converted from a VMWare Server or VMWare ESX Server vmdk to vhd. ![]() ![]() I have seen this happen with Sublime Text 3. I'm on El Capitan. I believe it has happened with and without multiple monitors. I always have Terminal windows up and when it happens, if I switch to an open Terminal window and click so I can see input focus there and then go back to ST3, the cursor is back in ST3. Eyeball chat for mac os x. Well, after lots of searching I stumbled upon the solution: • Boot the guest OS off of the appropriate Windows CD (mount ISO is also an option). • Go to the recovery options. • Open the command prompt. • Type the command: bcdedit • You should see the windows boot manager in one partition and the loader in another one. • If that is the case, then type the following commands and then reboot the guest: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot • If that is not the case, try the following command and reboot the guest: bcdboot C: Windows Thanks to. I'm using Word 2010 under Windows 7, and when I browse through a document using the arrow keys, the Cursor in Word disappears. This is very annoying, because you do not see anymore where you are in the document. Only when releasing the arrow keys, and wait for a while, the cursor appears again. I'm not the only one at my office experiencing this problem, there are more colleagues with the same issue. Note that I'm, not talking about the mouse cursor, so this has nothing to do with mouse drivers and options like: 'Hide pointer while typing' within the Mouse Properties. I spent the afternoon talking to a microsoft representative who looked at this problem within the document I was having this problem with. He diagnosed the following problem: 'This happens only with this document and its a document specific issue' A problem was caused by the document having a change in 'the word spacing options etc.' This can be caused when retained formatting from an outside source is copied into the existing document whose spacing options are different from those in the original document. Therefore the solution was: Copy the entire document into a new, freshly opened, blank document, leaving behind ALL the formatting. DO NOT transfer any of the old formatting to the new document. After the 'text only' is copied into the fresh document the cursor resumes its proper functioning and can always be seen as it should be when using the arrow keys. Then manually reformat your document the way you want it to be formatted. (Font type, font size, tabs, italics, line spacing, etc.) Any new text you copy and paste into your document, make sure you paste it as text only without its outside formatting or you run the risk of recorrupting your document and losing your cursor again. This is the only way to get your cursor back. For me it was worth it to do, as I am working with the same 300 page document for several hours per day for several months of the year. I found that the problem with a disappearing cursor (the vertical cursor line that blinks) was completely resolved when I highlighted the ENTIRE document and changed the language to English USA. There must have been some remnants of other language code in my document left over from previous saves or previous versions of Word. To do this, highlight EVERYTHING in the document(don't leave something out!) Next go to the Review tab on the editing ribbon on the top of the page. Click on the language button (you should get a drop down list) and make sure you reclick on 'English USA'. In my case it was a Content Control in the page header that was causing the problem. (I figured this out by using the suggestion from BillSw to save the file in.doc format (which removed all Content Controls). I deleted the content control (which had been added by the particular template that I had chosen) and the cursor problem was fixed. (Right-click in the content control and select 'Remove Content Control'. THe text it contains will be preserved.) (It's amazing how annoying little problems like this can really get under your skin, isn't it?). 'Draft' view does what you want. Who can explain why 'Print Layout' fails here?
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