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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com>
>> Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 15:20:31 -0500
>> 
>> I have a very strange problem: my cursor does not show up with the
>> combination shown in the subject.  However, it _does_ appear if I
>> connect to the Windows Server directly, e.g. when I am at work.
>> 
>> (Also, the cursor appears in every other application but Emacs!)
>
> What is your value of w32-use-visible-system-caret?  If it's non-nil,
> Emacs will not draw its cursor, but will rely on the system caret to
> show point instead.

I have tried both:

(setq w32-use-visible-system-caret t)

and

(setq w32-use-visible-system-caret nil)

and it's the same problem.