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Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition
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Windows Vista® Inside Out Deluxe Edition

by Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson
May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1408 pages
44h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
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Customizing Mouse Pointers

As you have undoubtedly noticed, Windows Vista has dispensed with the time-dishonored hourglass mouse pointer. That might be a welcome development, particularly if you’ve logged a lot of hours with earlier versions of Windows. On the other hand, if you think an hourglass depicts the passage of time more unambiguously than a rolling doughnut, you can easily bring back the old shape. You can customize the entire array of pointer shapes your system uses by right-clicking the desktop, choosing Personalize, and then clicking Mouse Pointers. On the Pointers tab of the Mouse Properties dialog box, you can select a pointer type in the Customize box, and then click Browse to select an alternative pointer shape. (The Browse button ...

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