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Quad5Ny

macrumors 6502a
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Sep 13, 2009
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For years when you would load a ICC profile (Display Calibration) it would apply color correction to the entire screen... except your cursor. If you wanted a calibrated monitor you would have to deal with your cursor looking blue when over a white background.

Now, there has also been workarounds for awhile as well; you could enable mouse trails, use black cursors or manually color correct your cursors.

It was enough, today I had to fix it. After fiddling for 20 minutes looking for a way to disable hardware cursor acceleration I gave up. But than had a awesome idea, what if you could have cursor trails enabled but have no actual trails:

Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"MouseTrails"="-1"
:D Save that as a .reg, merge it into the registry and then Log Off/On.


Note: The extent of how noticeable the cursor's off-color depends on how much the ICC profile deviated from your displays default colors.
 
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