Am I right in thinking that the windows mouse cursor

[kicknhorse]

I am at work, and whilst looking at my pointer on a white screen, I noticed my little arrow has a shadow.

I have been using computers for the best part of almost 15 years and I never noticed this, nor can I find any options for this.

Is this just be, or something to do with my work monitor?

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Control Panel > Mouse > Pointers (Card where you choose look of your mouse, scheme) there on the bottom you have a tick box, it says: Enable Pointer Shadow

 

[kicknhorse]

Control Panel > Mouse > Pointers (Card where you choose look of your mouse, scheme) there on the bottom you have a tick box, it says: Enable Pointer Shadow

Oh yes that makes perfect sense, thank you Toni, I guess I just missed it - or it could not be here.

Some sections of my computer are blocked as its a massive network with thousands of staff, but I do have a 'think client' (normal computer) for my job so it is better than most.

Thank you again, I just thought I was going crazy

Edit: They do let me keep it, but your right it is such a small little box hidden out the way

Thank you again

 

[Toni Plutonij]

No problem at all..

I didn't actually know about it, when you posted this thread, it made me intrigued as well so I went to look for it!

Glad to help

 

[NeSchn]

Yeah, I've noticed it, I never really paid attention to it though

 

[Rydian]

AKAIK it was brought about in XP, or maybe 2K. I think 2K.

 

[syko5150]

yeah i remember it on 2000 because i used to play with it back then

 

[Westside]

It's actually much sexier with the shadow.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

It's actually much sexier with the shadow.

My thoughts as well..

I have black arrow with white outline and shadow.....Looks quite sexy!

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I use the dinosaur arrow ATM, it's incredibly impractical, but it's so lulz

Also, NeSchn, your sig disturbs me

 

[Twiffles]

The first time I saw NeSchn's sig I was trippin'. Even more so than usual.
Now I see it, I still trip, but only for maybe one second.

 

[Deleted User]

Last week I used a computer with mouse trailing enabled. That was weird.

Join the party guys.

 

[geoflcl]

Heh, yep, I remember when Windows 2000 came around. The cursor shadow, the fade-in Start Menu, and all that jazz. It was awesome to me.

But they were slowing down my lame ol' Pentium II with a god-knows-what kind of graphics card, so I had to turn them off.