JSI Tip 9456. Your Windows XP mouse pointer scheme does NOT change and you receive 'the mouse pointer files are missing or corrupted'?

Jerold Schulman

June 14, 2005

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When you attempt to change the Windows XP mouse pointer scheme, you experience the subject behavior if one or more of the .cur or .ani files are missing from the %SystemRoot%Cursors folder.

To fix this problem:

1. Insert the Windows XP CD.

2. Open a CMD.EXE window.

3. Type the following commands, pressing Enter after each line:

expand i386*.cu_ %SystemRoot%Cursorsrename %SystemRoot%Cursors*.cu_ *.curexpand i386*.an_ %SystemRoot%Cursorsrename %SystemRoot%Cursors*.an_ *.ani



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