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Mouse shadow gets disabled after running certain programs

Submitted by dguy6789 on December 7, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug

When running certain games, after exiting the game, the shadow under the mouse is disabled. The user must go into the control panel and re-enable the mouse shadow.

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Not fixed

Discussion (4 comments)

patternjake wrote on January 8, 2010, 12:54am

Been like this since the dawn of time. This is not a MS fault, this is by design of other apps. (Especially D3D ones).

Sandwich wrote on January 8, 2010, 10:17am

For the record, here are the comments that got lost (thank you, Google cache):

Indrek (http://www.windows7taskforce.com/user/2578) wrote on December 7, 2009, 9:57pm

Any specific games with which this happens? So we can try and reproduce the bug.



dguy6789 (http://www.windows7taskforce.com/user/3561) wrote on December 8, 2009, 4:38pm

Command&Conquer Red Alert 3 is one of them. It's a more recent game too. I'd have to install a bunch of my old games to see which of them, but it's a problem I remember having on multiple occasions a long time ago and playing Red Alert 3 reminded me to post it up here.



Zedo Mann (http://www.windows7taskforce.com/user/5363) wrote on December 9, 2009, 2:43am

+1

I've had this happen to me, kind of annoying.



dguy6789 (http://www.windows7taskforce.com/user/3561) wrote on December 16, 2009, 7:08pm

Need for Speed Shift is another game that causes this.



Sandwich (http://www.windows7taskforce.com/user/6618) wrote on December 25, 2009, 2:28pm

This has been frustrating me for years... ever since Windows 2000, IIRC.

I did some testing for y'all... in each game, I merely loaded it to the main menu and quit, re-enabling the pointer shadow where needed.

Causes:
- Prototype
- Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth 2
- Red Alert 3

Doesn't cause:
- Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
- TrackMania United Forever
- Sims 3 (both fullscreen & windowed mode)
- Dark Reign 2
- Company of Heroes
- Freespace 2

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dguy6789 wrote on March 6, 2011, 10:32pm

This issue happens with League of Legends as well.

dguy6789 wrote on March 6, 2011, 10:33pm

Assigned to categories: "Bug"
Changed problem description.

Sandwich wrote on March 7, 2011, 2:58am

I managed to "fix" the problem; I dual-boot Win7 / WinXP, and now I only install and play games under XP. No mouse shadow issue under Win7 anymore, and I get a massive performance boost as well. :D

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