The Tablet PC team at Microsoft has released a nifty little blog piece on some tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Tablet PC or UMPC with Windows Vista.  Among the tips is this one: 

#4: Enlarge the caret (text insertion point)

Consider making the caret (text insertion point) easier to see in bright / daylight conditions, by increasing its thickness slightly.  I don’t know if this setting is available anywhere in the Control Panel, but you can increase the caret width with this straightforward registry key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "CaretWidth"=dword:00000003

This trick can be especially helpful on Tablet PCs, for visually identifying which field on a form has the input focus (ie, the field which will receive results from the Tablet PC Input Panel).

There are several more, and some are quite good, so I encourage you to check it out.

Source: Tablet PC Team Blog : Windows Vista Secrets for Tablet PC?

Here’s a bonus tip from Tim Sneath on his blog.

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