Arne_Saknussemm

Dear Forum Members; The following will not be too apparent unless you run your monitor at 3 Megapixels (2048X1536) resolution or more. At this resolution the default 96 DPI setting is too small for comfortable reading of system dialog boxes and the like. In Windows 2000 you could just slide the DPI ruler to the right until you got a nice view of the system dialog boxes, buttons and everything else. For my eyesight that turned out to be 165% or 158 DPI. On WinXP when you go above 149 DPI the mouse cursor on every application gets scaled to fill a 64X64 box; this makes for a very pixelated pointer and forces users to choose between a ridiculously large cursor or squinting at the menus in most apps. Does anybody know how to disable the mouse cursor scaling that Windows XP forces on all pointer cursors when the DPI setting is set greater than 149 DPI?

Dear Forum Members; I want to keep using Windows 2000 Pro SP5 (with the unofficial service pack 5). Lately I have found two software packages that do an OS version check before allowing to proceed with the install, and reject W2K telling me to update to XPSp2GRRRRR! The applications are Dasault’s SolidWorks 07 (a very popular midrange solids modeler), and Flash CS3. I have similar (IronCAD 9 & CATIA V5R16) and pickier applications (AliasStudio 2008 – the full set of real-time renderings works flawlessly) running perfectly on W2K, so I feel safe assuming there is nothing new added to XP to make CS3 or SW07 perform better (3D the latest NVIDIA drivers support my hardware too). I have tried to change the OS version by removing the SYSTEM’s Full permissions on the “CurrentVersion” subkey within the “SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT” Key and edit the corresponding values, but after reboot the SYSTEM takes ownership of the subkey again, overwriting any changes. So now I am thinking of what’s possibly the best approach; to edit the MSI install file of the offending applications to skip the OS version check or “fake” the XPSp2 it is looking for. Does anybody here know what to edit from the MSI to bypass the OS check? Or any other solution to the problem! Please forgive my newbie posting but I have searched the forums extensively and have yet to find exactly the solution I am looking for. Regards Everyone, Arne Saknussemm