Accessibility Delete Saved Custom Mouse Pointer Scheme in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to delete a saved custom mouse pointer scheme for your account in Windows 11.

The mouse pointer, which is sometimes referred to as the cursor, is a bitmap that specifies a focus point on the screen for user input with the mouse. The pointer will appear with a different image for each action or status by default.

When you customize mouse pointer images, you can save these changes as a scheme. This saved pointer scheme will then be available to select on demand to make changing the mouse pointer scheme to the custom scheme.

You can delete a saved pointer scheme when you no longer want it.







1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Mouse icon.

2 Click/tap on the Pointers tab. (see screenshot below)


3 Select a saved custom scheme you want to delete in the Scheme drop menu. (see screenshot below)


4 Click/tap on the Delete button. (see screenshot below)

The Delete button will be grayed out for schemes included with Windows.

5 Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (see screenshot below)


6 When finished, click/tap on OK to close Mouse Properties. (see screenshot below)






1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below step 3)



3 In the right pane of the Schemes key, right click on the expandable string value (REG_EXPAND_SZ) with the scheme name (ex: "Blue" or "Red") you want to delete, and click/tap on Delete. (see screenshot below)

The value Data for each pointer scheme name (REG_EXPAND_SZ) will show you the full path location of the .ani and/or .cur files used by the scheme.

4 Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (see screenshot below)


5 You can now close Registry Editor if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink