Mouse pointer cursor scaling at High DPI

[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?

Edited May 23, 2009 by Arne_Saknussemm