Annoying cursor flicker with WMP

[SC@VENGER]

When Windows Media Player is playing, the mouse cursor flickers between 'Busy
in the background' and 'Pointer' cursors, which is annoying. Is there a
workaround for this (temporary disable 'Busy' cursor)?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

When Windows Media Player is playing, the mouse cursor flickers between
'Busy
in the background' and 'Pointer' cursors, which is annoying. Is there a
workaround for this (temporary disable 'Busy' cursor)?

Move the cursor out of the way so you don't see it?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I suppose you could assign a keyboard combo to a shortcut that ran a script
to re-enable the mouse cursor when you wanted it again. Disabling the mouse
device in Device Manager or a script would disable the cursor.

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[CSharpArchitect]

I have the same issue and it just recently started, when I shut down windows
media player the cursor goes back to normal.

 

[Fixamer]

Try to remove SD card, or whatever WMP tries to sync with. I inserted SD card
when WMP was on. Mouse was flickering when it was in PC with WMP running.