Fix: Visual Studio 2008 Cursor Disappears in Virtual PC Instance

I have Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 (waiting for my RTM DVD to arrive) running on Windows Server 2003 in a Virtual PC instance.  There was one behavior that made this setup practically unusable - the cursor would disappear when it entered the edit pane of Visual Studio.  I must admit that I was scratching my head over this one and even tried using Visual Web Developer Express 2008 in the same instance - the cursor does not disappear in the Express version.  At any rate, I have this corrected now and following are the steps I used:

  1. Right-click on the desktop, select Properties
  2. Select the Settings tab
  3. Press Advanced
  4. Press Troubleshoot
  5. Set the Hardware Acceleration slider to one step less than Full
  6. Press Apply and OK

For what it's worth, I don't expect I'm using a configuration that is rare and I'm surprised that this didn't come up during Beta 1 - I expect it's fixed in RTM though.

-Paul

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