How do I get the Mouse cursor to disappear completely in Full Screen Mode?

[PayPaul]

I have a problem when viewing videos in full screen mode. What happens to me is that no matter what Video player I use the mouse cursor will snap to a certain location on the screen in spite of my moving it off to the side when I'm running that player in Full Screen Mode. I want to make the cursor disappear altogether when viewing the video in full screen. This happens with any mouse I attach via USB. I am running Vista Home Premium 64bit with an ATI 4600 series video card. I have searched for updated drivers and Windows tells me the driver for the card is the latest driver. The cursor will even appear when I detach the mouse and it will land in the same place (off center) all the time. It will disappear for a few seconds and then reappear. Any ideas?

 

[julzx94]

Have you tried in VLC Media Player yet? In VLC, your mouse should automatically fade out no matter where on the screen it is.

 

[PayPaul]

I found the solution. In mouse properties>Pointers you have to uncheck the box that says "enable Pointer Shadow". I haven't a clue as to what "pointer shadow" means but it eliminated the problem of the cursor constantly appearing and snapping to the off center location when running a video in full screen mode. Weird but it worked!

 

[Imperfect1]

I found the solution. In mouse properties>Pointers you have to uncheck the box that says "enable Pointer Shadow". I haven't a clue as to what "pointer shadow" means but it eliminated the problem of the cursor constantly appearing and snapping to the off center location when running a video in full screen mode. Weird but it worked!

That's interesting PayPaul, cause in my system (HP dv5t with built-in Synaptics Touchpad mouse + touchpad), the Pointer Shadow simply creates a gray shadow around the cursor -- and unchecking the selection box merely removes the shadow. Glad it solved your problem while watching videos though. That's the important thing!