If you mean the thing that moves around when you move your mouse
see cursor : Java Glossary
You might want to use a more visible cursor while you are at it. Try Metro X 1. Link at bottom.

Thanks. What sort of nitwits would present a progress meter then stall it to simuate a crash.

I waited for perhaps 10 minutes with no progress. How long do you have to wait?

This is not strictly a BSOD. It is a solid freeze. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not break it. I have to power off.
It happens when I run this:

rem chk.btm
rem /F =full chkdsk repair. /R = surface check....

The instructions presume the *.reg association is working. You might like to add a sentence on what do to if it is broken.

Bingo. I installed
Directory.reg
Folder.reg
lnk.reg
and it WORKS! Many thanks

I am postponing that hoping for a rescue with some registry tweak. I can postpone indefinitely. I can select directories with right click open. I can create shortcuts by cloning and modifying an...

It is worse than I thought. When I right click on the desktop or the explorer there is no create folder or create shortcut

I have run anti-virus and malware scans. Shows nothing. I suspect new tools, Malswarebytes and IOBit.

When I double click on a drive or directory, normally Explorer shows the contents. Now it displays a message this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please...

Thanks for the idea. I tried triggering this by waving the mouse all over the bottom right area. Nothing happened. We will see what configuring does.

I have not been able to find any reference to this problem anywhere, but it is driving me crazy. I can be typing way into any app, or viewing a movie on DVD or anything. Suddenly my app disappears,...

I am having the same problem sporadically. I notice it particularly with Roxio DVD burn where I am trying to select multiple folders rather than mulitple files.