Strange Blinking Cursor Icon

[Guest]

I have Windows XP Pro with SP2. Sometimes i get a picture of a tiny CD
blinking next to my mouse pointer. Although it seems to happen most often
after I go online, it can happen at any time. I can't seem to get rid of it
without rebooting. Although sometimes I get the icon right when I first boot
up.

What is it and how can I get rid of it? I tried all the options about mouse
icons but they didn't work.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Your CD drive is accessing the CD that's in it. Take the CD out of the CD
drive.

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[Guest]

That's what's strange. There is no CD in the drive. I have one CDROM drive
and one DVDRW drive and neither one has anything in it.

Any ideas?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Open C:\WINDOWS\Cursors and see if the CD cursor is in there.

If it is, what's the name? I.e. somename.ani or somename.cur.

If you don't find it, try doing a Search on your machine for *.ani and *.cur
and see if it shows up.

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