making the Windows mouse cursor temporarily dissappear?

[magnumpy]

Hello, I have a question for the resident batch gurus. I'm not even sure if this is an appropriate forum, but I'm sure like many of you I have fond memories of writing little batch programs "back in the day" so I figured this would be a good place to start

My problem involves running the Nvidia Nalu demo as a screen saver. This is my setup:

I'm using the Screen Launcher "screensaver" which is just a utility to run programs other than .scr files as a screensaver, and it launches run.bat which is:

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@echo off
c:
cd\
cd Program Files (x86)
cd NVIDIA Corporation
cd NVidia Demos
cd Nalu
cd bin6600
mermaid.exe
exit

I then 0'd out the menu graphics (in the Nalu demo) which has gotten me this far:



well as you can see I have an ugly mouse cursor smack in the middle of the screen. sorry for the long exposition, but here finally is my question. is there any way, either through the batch program or an external application, to disable displaying the mouse cursor while the "screensaver" is running?

Thank you for your time.

[orange_batch]

I would think the software would do it automatically.

Batch cannot hide a mouse cursor directly. As a work-around, you might try writing a script which modifies the file that binds that mouse state to that cursor icon, and changing it to something blank (same as using the control panel utility would). Then have it revert when the demo is closed.

[yelodena]

[by Ed Dyreen 31 Oct 2012] adds removed, banned yelodena bot

How to stop the cursor from going back to another word? I have a Gateway laptop computer running Windows Vista and when I am typing the cursor jumps back to the other word that I already typed. Does anyone know how to fix it? I went to the Gateway forum and Windows Vista forum but there wasn't any help to fix it.
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[Squashman]

Hi yelodena,
This is a Windows batch file specific website. We really don't deal with the issue you are having.

[Ed Dyreen]

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I try to hide mouse but I fail, so I cheat and move it off screen

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rundll32.exe user32.dll,SetCursorPos

This will help

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http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/rundll/
http://www.ureader.com/msg/14841452.aspx
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/26438-hideshow-mouse/
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/control.htm

As orange wrote, you can bind to control panel, I forgot how

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start main.cpl @0

Google a little, the answer is NOT far away, and if you have it working, please report back, I'd like to know

[Ed Dyreen]

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Damn, I responded to an old thread @yelodena, stop confusing people