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Green colored Mouse pointer !!!!!!
Name: mahmud Date: December 13, 2000 at 14:50:27 Pacific
Comment:
Hi there.
Once on a sudden without any reason my mouse pointer (arrow and thumbnail) has turned into green color today. I don't know how it happened. I've tried to change it's settings though control pnl>mouse, but it's not working. Any idea?
Name: furble Date: December 13, 2000 at 15:21:12 Pacific
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I've had the case where i've accessed a certain website and it's changed my mouse pointer, it changed my standard white pointer to a blue one. Check your system tray and make sure no new apps have loaded up, if there is nothing there try ctrl+alt+del and see if there are any funny programs loading. Surprised that you weren't able to change your pointer back though. Possible your standard mouse pointer file was overwritten with this new green one, by whatever caused the problem.
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Response Number 2
Name: hackmaster Date: December 13, 2000 at 15:38:57 Pacific
Reply:
You probably have Comet Cursor on your system...this changes your cursor on certain sites. It is also Spyware. Get Ad-Aware to remove it and any other Spyware from your system.
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Response Number 3
Name: Michael Edwards Date: December 13, 2000 at 15:44:56 Pacific
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I know this wont be whats wrong but the same thing happened to me when i disables virtual memory on my system once.
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Response Number 4
Name: Calispell Date: December 13, 2000 at 17:30:37 Pacific
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It might be your video card. I have an SR9 video card and I've noticed the same problems happen in Linux, but not in Windows. It turns out the SR9 has a utility that allows you to change the color of the cursor, but it doesn't work so well outside of Windows. I'm glad they didn't include a utility to change the color of the SCREEN (like many other companies do)!
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Response Number 5
Name: Bryan Date: December 13, 2000 at 20:45:10 Pacific
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Sounds like Comet cursor. Try ad/adware as mentioned. It won't hurt anything except for the program that Comet Cursor came with.
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Response Number 6
Name: mahmud Date: December 13, 2000 at 21:48:54 Pacific
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Thanks for response.
Yeah, it was due to comet cursor. I've removed it by adware.
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