How to hide the mouse cursor when typing in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

Has anyone been able to find a workaround for Visual Studio that does not hide the mouse cursor on input ?

During coding, I use both a mouse and keyboard. I have to say that this error is driving me crazy because it has a strong effect on Intellisense, causing pop-ups to blink and disappear, because I print simply because I have a mouse cursor in the id. It also affects third-party tools like Devexpress CodeRush or, I suspect, JetBrains ReSharper.

A typical work pattern for someone like me that uses both a mouse and keyboard during encoding involves using the mouse as a quick navigation tool inside the source file. It is for this reason that we often click places in code that contains identifiers. On the other hand, the cursor may be far from it, but if my input invariably ends up putting the identifier next to the mouse cursor, again intellisense (or third-party tools of similar functions) clicks, blinks inside and out I type; for a very annoying effect.

Answer 1

Like you, I had this problem forever. So I wrote a little script that hides the mouse cursor no matter which Windows application you use.

Please note that if you run Visual Studio (or anything else) in elevated mode, you will need to run my utility in elevated mode too.

You can find here

Answer 2

Windows has a feature that is enabled by default (at least on Windows 7), called "Hide the cursor when typing." I must admit that it does not work all the time, but it seems to me that it works for you :). It can be turned off from the control panel → Mouse → Pointer options → Hide pointer during input. Since I do not have any other OS, I cannot give you another exact path, but I think I found it in Windows 98 or Me.