Mouse disappears in RDP MMC

[Guest]

I have an MSC file with all of the servers in the domain configured to "Connect to console" (all Windows 2003 Standard). The clients are Windows XP. With neither rhyme nor reason - no particular user, no particular workstation, no particular server - from time to time during an RDP session, if the session goes idle for a few minutes (perhaps long enough to start the workstation's screen saver, when the user tries to work in the RDP session, the mouse is just gone

The keyboard shortcuts work. But the mouse is invisible. The mouse pointer is obviously working, because mouseovers and tool tips pop up, we just can't see the mouse. Disconnecting the session doesn't fix it. Closing the MMC and restarting it does, even on reconnect

Is anyone else having this issue?

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

There's a pre-SP2 XP hotfix for this problem:

833293 - Remote Desktops session window does not display mouse
pointer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833293