Mouse Pointer Style

[stephengillie]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Looking into this because I actually use this setting. These are under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors.

• Mouse style has 4 settings:
  • Default (Aero)
  • Windows Black
  • Windows Inverted
  • Color (Aero again)
• The first 3 have the same Registry settings for cursor files under %SystemRoot%, and only seem to change the (Default) key.
• The 4th uses a different set of cursor files under \AppData\, and seems to use the same cursor files, regardless of color.
  • I’m guessing that the Settings app dynamically generates the cursor files into the \AppData\ location, before updating the Registry to point there.
  • Possibly starting with the files used by the Default Aero pointer, and then updating the color value of the pale pixels.
• CUR files seem to be multilayer animated files, similar to PNG or GIF.
  • I’m not sure of the format differences, and Internet search is heavily SEOed towards online services (which obviously aren’t an option here.)

Proposed technical implementation details

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[stephengillie]

DSCResource name: MousePointer (Foreach property) Property name: MousePointerStyle TypeOrEnum: Enum EnumItems:

• Aero
• Black
• Inverted
• Color

Registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors Registry key name: (Default) Registry key type: Reg_SZ Registry key values:

• Windows Aero (other keys point to %SystemRoot%)
• Windows Black (other keys point to %SystemRoot%)
• Windows Inverted (other keys point to %SystemRoot%)
• Windows Aero (other keys point to %AppData%)

Get method name: GetMousePointerStyle