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Title: Hiding pointer/cursor or changing starting position Windows XP
Post by: Pitou on September 06, 2007, 02:12:33 pm: Hello,

I did the best to hide the cursor on startup. (yes even using the .Default registry, it still show for 1 sec)

Now my idea would be to force windows to put the cursor in the bottom right corner.

Anyone knows how to do this?

Thanks.

Pitou!
Title: Re: Hiding pointer/cursor or changing starting position Windows XP
Post by: Justin Z on September 06, 2007, 03:37:52 pm: Another solution I've seen is installing a pointer set that has the pointer as a one-pixel sized black dot. I have not done this myself, but I'm sure you could find information with a search.
Title: Re: Hiding pointer/cursor or changing starting position Windows XP
Post by: Pitou on October 04, 2007, 10:46:24 am: bump
Title: Re: Hiding pointer/cursor or changing starting position Windows XP
Post by: jaquer on October 05, 2007, 01:51:41 am: See if this helps: http://jaquer.izaram.net/files/Mousehide.zip (http://jaquer.izaram.net/files/Mousehide.zip)
Title: Re: Hiding pointer/cursor or changing starting position Windows XP
Post by: Organic Jerk on October 05, 2007, 10:03:46 am: Quote from: jaquer on October 05, 2007, 01:51:41 am
See if this helps: http://jaquer.izaram.net/files/Mousehide.zip (http://jaquer.izaram.net/files/Mousehide.zip)

So people have a better idea of what they would be downloading, here is a description from the readme..

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Mousehide by Izaram

Mousehide is a very simple VB proggie that will hide your mouse pointer after
approximately 1 second of inactivity. Simply run it and leave your mouse
untouched and your pointer will simply disappear.

I'm still working on a way to hide the "cute" little window (minimize to tray
maybe?). For now, you can run it like this "mousehide /hide" and you won't see the window appear at all, but be careful, there's no way to stop the program this way other than Ctrl-Alt-Del and end its task.

Send any feedback, good and bad, to domoper@izaram.net
Title: Re: Hiding pointer/cursor or changing starting position Windows XP
Post by: BobbyG66 on October 05, 2007, 03:52:52 pm: Quote from: Justin Z on September 06, 2007, 03:37:52 pm
Another solution I've seen is installing a pointer set that has the pointer as a one-pixel sized black dot. I have not done this myself, but I'm sure you could find information with a search.
I have a "one-pixel sized black dot." on my screen and it's burning a hole in my brain!

Sorry, it's Friday... I'm burned. :timebomb:
Title: Re: Hiding pointer/cursor or changing starting position Windows XP
Post by: metahacker on October 09, 2007, 04:04:56 pm: i think you need the NULL.ICO or something similar to set your pointer in the mouse properties of the control panel.

Touch screen driver sets usually include a set of mouse cursors that have a nulled out pointer.

I think you should be able to dig them out from here or somewhere similar

http://www.elotouch.com/Support/Downloads/dnld.asp#windows_universal
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/3MTouchSystems/TS/TechnicalInformation/TouchDrivers/

I know that when we've developed custom touch screen kiosks at work both of those guys (ELO & 3M) have supplied an 'invisible cursor' pointer icon with the standard driver pkg.