Click Start.
Click Settings. (If needed. This may not be needed)
Click Control Panel.
Click Printers and Other Hardware.
Click Mouse. 
Click Pointers. 
You can click on the arrow under scheme to see different
pointer options. 
You will see lots of different mouse options.
You can make your mouse pointer look like a lot of different things. In class many people were amused by the dinosaur scheme.
When you find a scheme you would like to try, click Apply.
If you want things back the way they were follow these directions.
Go back to Mouse Pointers.
Set the scheme to none.
Click Apply.