Forgive me for not getting back sooner to your suggestions.I did do some changing of the screen resolutions and actually got the screen to be better than it was by far.
As for the mouse pointer, I went in and found that the section for making the mouse invisible and it was not even check marked . I dug deeper and got to the cursors themselves. I picked out a different cursor and was set.
Thank you for guiding me in the right direction.
Truely a believer,
D.bug7