make mouse pointer invisible on idle

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Published on 2009-10-29T02:52:05Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 13:23 UTC
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Is there a way to make the mouse pointer disappear when the computer goes idle? If the solution could work in both XP and 7, that would be great.

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