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emacs -Q, cut and paste the forms you added to your init file (modified as per the answer below) into the*scratch*buffer and evaluate each one by putting the cursor after its closing parenthesis and typingC-j. You might try a more obvious color than"blue"(I suggest"red") for checking. If that works, cut and paste the working forms into your init file and try restarting emacs (without the-Qthis time). If that does not work, then figure out why your init file is not being read. See gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Windows-HOME.html for hints.emacs -Q? If not, please do so: it might be that something in your init is causing your emacs to behave differently from everybody else's, but both the above and theblink-cursor-modesetting behave differently in my case (and I presume in @amitp's case) than in yours, so my inclination is to blame your init file (or if you get the same behavior with-Q, your emacs build - where did you get your emacs and what is its version? DoM-x emacs-versionto find out the version).