Lost Mouse Pointers

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I think I may have done this myself somehow, but when I click on a scheme in
Mouse Pointers in Control Panel, Appearance & Themes, a dialogue box comes up
saying: 'The C:\Windows\Cursors\"hand"/"horse"/"etc"ani.file, which contains
the "Busy"/"Text Select"/"etc" cursor is either missing or corrupt'.
I've done a System Restore (I accidentally uninstalled the calculator and
some games doing a Disk Cleanup) and that didn't fix the problem.
Do you have any suggestions please?
Thanks and regards,
Mandy
 
Mandy said:
I think I may have done this myself somehow, but when I click on a scheme in
Mouse Pointers in Control Panel, Appearance & Themes, a dialogue box comes up
saying: 'The C:\Windows\Cursors\"hand"/"horse"/"etc"ani.file, which contains
the "Busy"/"Text Select"/"etc" cursor is either missing or corrupt'.
I've done a System Restore (I accidentally uninstalled the calculator and
some games doing a Disk Cleanup) and that didn't fix the problem.
Do you have any suggestions please?
Thanks and regards,
Mandy
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This might repair those files:

Click Start, Run, type SFC /SCANNOW, click OK. If any are damaged or
missing files, they'll be replaced. You may need to reboot afterwards
so damaged files will be replaced.
 
Thanks Elmo, I did what you said and a dialogue box came up saying something
like: Pls wait while Windows verifies that all the files are in their
original places, then before that finished, another dialogue box came up
saying "Files that are required for Windows to run properly must be copied to
the DLL Cache. Pls insert the Windows XP CD." So I did that, but it then
said that the version on my computer is a newer version than on my CD. I
didn't want to install SP1 when I have SP2 so I aborted that exercise. I
suppose I'm stuck with boring mouse pointers. It allows me to have Windows
Standard (large & extra large), Windows Default, Windows Black (normal size,
large & extra large), Windows Inverted (normal size, large & extra large). It
doesn't allow 3D Bronze, 3D White, Animated, Hands 1 & 2, Dinosaur,
Magnified, Old Fashioned, Variations or Conductor, which, they say in
brackets are all system schemes.
If you know of another way, I'd appreciate you telling me, but apart from
that, I'll just use what I can.
Thanks very much for your response.
 
Mandy said:
Thanks Elmo, I did what you said and a dialogue box came up saying something
like: Pls wait while Windows verifies that all the files are in their
original places, then before that finished, another dialogue box came up
saying "Files that are required for Windows to run properly must be copied to
the DLL Cache. Pls insert the Windows XP CD." So I did that, but it then
said that the version on my computer is a newer version than on my CD. I
didn't want to install SP1 when I have SP2 so I aborted that exercise. I
suppose I'm stuck with boring mouse pointers. It allows me to have Windows
Standard (large & extra large), Windows Default, Windows Black (normal size,
large & extra large), Windows Inverted (normal size, large & extra large). It
doesn't allow 3D Bronze, 3D White, Animated, Hands 1 & 2, Dinosaur,
Magnified, Old Fashioned, Variations or Conductor, which, they say in
brackets are all system schemes.
If you know of another way, I'd appreciate you telling me, but apart from
that, I'll just use what I can.
Thanks very much for your response.
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If you could borrow a CD with XP and SP2, that should work. Or direct
the search for files to the C:\Windows\System32\I386 folder. When
prompted to insert the CD, click OK, (hopefully) you may then get a
browse option which you can direct to that folder.
 
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