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Title: Hiding Mouse at Bootup - Question
Post by: markronz on January 11, 2011, 11:49:22 am

So I searched and found this post about hiding the mouse pointer in Windows:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,35205.msg306896.html#msg306896 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,35205.msg306896.html#msg306896)

I am looking for a way to hide the mouse cursor in the initial Windows boot up and I'm wondering if this is the answer.   The thing is, I don't want the windows mouse cursor to be gone for good.   I either want it to be hidden during the beginning, or for it to be placed off the screen at boot up.   I still want to be able to use the mouse for administrative type stuff, so I don't really want to use the 1 pixel mouse cursor.

So my question is, if I do the steps in the link above, does it hide the cursor all the time?  Or will it just be hidden during the initial few seconds when windows starts up (the only time its a problem)?

Title: Re: Hiding Mouse at Bootup - Question
Post by: BadMouth on January 11, 2011, 12:33:42 pm

There are Autohotkey scripts out there that do this.
Here is some discussion:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic6107.html (http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic6107.html)

There is also a MouseMove command in autohotkey if you just want to get it out of the way without making it invisible.
It's just MouseMove, X, Y
i.e.

MouseMove, 1400, 900

I just use high enough numbers that the pointer is off the screen.
All you have to do is move the mouse or trackball to get the pointer back on the screen.

Title: Re: Hiding Mouse at Bootup - Question
Post by: markronz on January 11, 2011, 01:13:41 pm

Thanks for the tip!  I just wrote my first AHK script the other day, so I will look into this as well.

Title: Re: Hiding Mouse at Bootup - Question
Post by: markronz on January 11, 2011, 01:39:07 pm

Well I made the simple script just to move the mouse position.  That option doesn't work for me.  Well, the script works, but the mouse cursor is still shown, in the center of the screen for a few second as Windows starts up.   So I am guessing I will have to do something similar to what was linked in my original post since that's in the registry, and I would think, would take effect right when Windows starts. 

So for the same reason I dont think an AHK script to change the mouse cursor would work for this either.  It just wouldn't take effect soon enough.  But nonetheless thanks for the help BadMouth.

So I guess if anyone has any ideas what exactly the fix in my original post does, I'd still be interested in hearing it.   Thanks!

Title: Re: Hiding Mouse at Bootup - Question
Post by: markronz on January 11, 2011, 04:05:44 pm

I just went ahead and tried it and it only removes the cursor at bootup.  It does not remove the cursor during normal Windows operation.  So I am happy.   ;D

It doesn't work perfectly, I'd probably need to shell my front end for that, but it's much better than before.   So I'm all set!