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Restore original Win7 default cursors
Not sure what transpired, but the cursor on a Win7 desktop got
changed, The original cursor: Arrow was medium tone white with black outline. Edit cursor was dark "I". This changed to: Arrow VERY bright distracting white with black outline. Edit cursor and others are now "Ex-Or'd", which means that their color changes according to what's under them. Unfortunately, that's not a practical thing to do, as it often completely disappears. Going to the main "Change Mouse Pointers" menu and clicking "use default" does not fix it. Nor does reselecting the regular Aero mouse-pointer scheme. Nor does changing to another desktop theme restore it. Anyone have any ideas? |
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Restore original Win7 default cursors
On 24/06/2012 06:50, Bob wrote:
Not sure what transpired, but the cursor on a Win7 desktop got changed, The original cursor: Arrow was medium tone white with black outline. Edit cursor was dark "I". This changed to: Arrow VERY bright distracting white with black outline. Edit cursor and others are now "Ex-Or'd", which means that their color changes according to what's under them. Unfortunately, that's not a practical thing to do, as it often completely disappears. Going to the main "Change Mouse Pointers" menu and clicking "use default" does not fix it. Nor does reselecting the regular Aero mouse-pointer scheme. Nor does changing to another desktop theme restore it. Anyone have any ideas? See: http://www.w7forums.com/change-windo...ly-t11553.html If that doesn't help, might be worth seeing what programs run at startup, and/or what processes/services are running which might be responsible for a custom cursor. What happens in safe mode? -- Jeff |
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Restore original Win7 default cursors
Bob wrote:
Not sure what transpired, but the cursor on a Win7 desktop got changed, The original cursor: Arrow was medium tone white with black outline. Edit cursor was dark "I". This changed to: Arrow VERY bright distracting white with black outline. Edit cursor and others are now "Ex-Or'd", which means that their color changes according to what's under them. Unfortunately, that's not a practical thing to do, as it often completely disappears. Going to the main "Change Mouse Pointers" menu and clicking "use default" does not fix it. Nor does reselecting the regular Aero mouse-pointer scheme. Nor does changing to another desktop theme restore it. Anyone have any ideas? It sound like you turned on the visually impaired enhancement. Toggle Alt + left shift + print screen and see. |
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Restore original Win7 default cursors
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:24:42 +0100, Jeff Layman
wrote: On 24/06/2012 06:50, Bob wrote: Not sure what transpired, but the cursor on a Win7 desktop got changed, The original cursor: Arrow was medium tone white with black outline. Edit cursor was dark "I". This changed to: Arrow VERY bright distracting white with black outline. Edit cursor and others are now "Ex-Or'd", which means that their color changes according to what's under them. Unfortunately, that's not a practical thing to do, as it often completely disappears. Going to the main "Change Mouse Pointers" menu and clicking "use default" does not fix it. Nor does reselecting the regular Aero mouse-pointer scheme. Nor does changing to another desktop theme restore it. Anyone have any ideas? See: http://www.w7forums.com/change-windo...ly-t11553.html If that doesn't help, might be worth seeing what programs run at startup, and/or what processes/services are running which might be responsible for a custom cursor. What happens in safe mode? Thanks to you and Paul for the replies. This was a strange one. After a few reboots, it went away, hopefully forever. I can't think of anything that I did in the interim that would have fixed it, so I'm assuming that it was an odd OS bug that corrupted the cursor handling function. I notice that the regular cursor is also ExOr'd (so it changes color depending on the color of the underlying pixels), but the bug evidently changed the ExOr byte so the final value was often invisible. |
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