Cursed cursor

[Guest]

When I place a CD in my CD-ROM drive, a small cartoonlike image of a CD
appears next to the cursor and follows the cursor around for a while. Then
it disappears. How can I disable this function? Thanks.

 

[Chuck]

When I place a CD in my CD-ROM drive, a small cartoonlike image of a CD
appears next to the cursor and follows the cursor around for a while. Then
it disappears. How can I disable this function? Thanks.

Sounds like an animation add-on - did you load a new mouse driver or
something recently? I ran CursorXP for a while - it had cute effects
like that. It made my system act up, so I dumped it. See if you
have some settings under Control Panel - Display, Mouse, or somewhere.

If you really can't find it otherwise, try Spybot S&D, and HijackThis.
The folks at SWI Forums can help you with the HijackThis log. Start
from this article (ignore the title):
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=5187
When you post the HJT log, put something descriptive in the article
title (better than "Help me with my HijackThis log").

Chuck
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Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Malke]

Sounds like an animation add-on - did you load a new mouse driver or
something recently? I ran CursorXP for a while - it had cute effects
like that. It made my system act up, so I dumped it. See if you
have some settings under Control Panel - Display, Mouse, or somewhere.

If you really can't find it otherwise, try Spybot S&D, and HijackThis.
The folks at SWI Forums can help you with the HijackThis log. Start
from this article (ignore the title):
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=5187
When you post the HJT log, put something descriptive in the article
title (better than "Help me with my HijackThis log").

Actually, this is normal behavior for Windows XP. The system is reading
the cd and will, unless set differently, open a dialog box asking you
what you'd like to do with the cd - look at the files, send to webpage,
etc. It's like the hourglass/busy cursor only specialized for cd's
under XP.

Malke

 

[Guest]

I've set WindowsXP to do nothing when I load a CD. So how do I stop the
cursor cartoon? Thanks.