Hi, I am new in this forum and just about to learn maya.

I have some fundamental problems concerning representation on my screen. I attached a screen shot to explain:

1. the curser is unusal small, how can I see it bigger?

2. the curser in the left down field is not parallel to the x,y,z axis but slightly inclined. It has always been like that since I installed maya.

3. it seems to me that my graphic card is not working properly. When I try to change the proportion of the 4 different fields (windows), this awkward white lines appear until I release my finger from the mouse.

I was thinking that some of the problems could have to do with my hardware and my operation system, I am using:

windows vista home professional, 32 bit
maya 2008
and:
2 GB Ram,
2x Intel Core 2 CPU 4300 @1,80 GHz
nvidia Geforce 8400 gs

So please, any recomendation would help me.