ANNOUNCING: CursorFX 4 - Customize the Windows Mouse Cursor

NEW CursorFX 4 Beta Available to Current Object Desktop Members

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Stardock Announces CursorFX 4: Customize the Windows Mouse Cursor
NEW CursorFX 4 beta available for current Object Desktop Members

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Stardock announced the next-generation version of its Windows® cursor customization application, CursorFX 4, today. With CursorFX, Windows users can instantly change their default mouse cursor on their computer with animated and themed cursor designs.

CursorFX makes it easy for Windows users to customize their mouse cursors by applying skins, shadows, motion trails, and sounds. Users can also import .PNG files into the CursorFX theme editor to create brand new cursors from scratch. 

The new version of CursorFX adds support for Windows 10 and high DPI monitors, several new cursor packs, and more. Thousands of additional cursors are also available for download on WinCustomize.com.

"We wanted to bring better cursor customization options to Windows 10 users," said Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock. "CursorFX has a ton of options for animations, special effects, and sound effects, as well as a robust customization community filled with thousands of users around the world.” 

CursorFX 4 will be released soon to all users for $4.99. The beta version is available now for subscribers to Stardock's Windows enhancement suite, Object Desktop. Visit www.cursorfx.com to learn more.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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If you customize the color for one cursor it applies to all and no option to save preset. Missing preview for many curors in left column. Settings app takes very long to start (by long, I mean 30 seconds on a fairly fast stationary PC)

And not even 5 minutes have passed since I installed it. 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Do we uninstall CursorFX 3 first? If I have CursorFX 3 Plus, is there a CursorFX 4 plus?

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ok, CursorFX 4 will not apply any cursors and is very slow to load the main dialog.

 

Only a scant few cursors actually show up as choices.

 

 

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I have used CursorFX Plus v2.16 for quite a while.

I downloaded CursorFX 4 Beta today, and installed it.

Is there a Purge to remove v2.6 - currently both are on my PC.

Only v2.6 will change my cursors - v4 Beta looks great, however no cursor change occurs - only with the co-installed v2.6.

Any clues?

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Raymond_SF, at least you can load a cursor, I can't get one to load.

 

Advice:

Don't lose CursorFX Plus v2.16  yet.

When you do let it go, use a third party uninstaller. The purge stuff seldom works, as you know.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm experiencing all the same problems as everyone else on here. It just didn't work. I uninstalled it and went back to my previous version, which, to be honest, also has a more interesting and attractive interface. I only changed from Windows 8 to Windows 10 a few days ago when I got a new computer, so this was a little disappointing. :(

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It is working here just fine.  I did not have any version of CursorFX installed on my machine until this new Beta.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Tried to install after uninstalling 2: 'CursorFX - Problem: Code5'.

 

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

Quoting Yrgal, reply 1

Missing preview for many curors in left column

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 3

Only a scant few cursors actually show up as choices.

Themes are stored here:

\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes\

Previews are stored here:

\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes\Preview

If the missing ones are not in \Previews, you can try redownloading the Cursor package, double click it, and it should add it there.

Another method would be to delete the \Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes\Preview folder, open the CursorFX UI and all the \Themes will be re-decompressed into the \Preview folder.  This may have the UI take some time to show as it does this.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting sdRohan, reply 9

That said, you may have some very old CursorXP packages that have a different compression format that may not be compatible.   .
This.

 

So, are you saying the old CursorXP packages will not work?  If so, I may keep the old version because I have a lot of cursors.

 

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Backwards compatibility is a must.

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 11

Backwards compatibility is a must.
This. Or I have no reason to use 4.0 even if it's fixed. I'm using 2.16 and it works like a charm.

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

I tested the CursorFX 4.0 and I can confirmed that it work with my old xxx.curxptheme. If the issue on the preview not showing. You just need to delete this folder : "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes\Preview" and the previews will be regenerated once you run CursorFXconfig.exe again.

Try it and report back.

Thank you,

Basj
Stardock Community Assistant.

 
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I will give it a shot, Jaz.  Another note. I just clicked the tray icon and chose to configure CFX. It took a good 30 seconds to open. And I have a 16 core CPU with 16 GB DDR4. Oh, and an SSD.

CFX 4 will not load ANY cursor file that I own.

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ok, that seems to have fixed the previews.

Loading CFX took forever, then it crashed as soon as I clicked inside the window.

 

Been waiting long enough to post this and it still hasn't opened...............................................................................

 

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Finally it applied a cursor.    So why is it so slow to load?

Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top

Any specific theme or any theme. .curxptheme or .cursorfx. ? So I can recheck on my system.

Thank you,

Basj
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #19 from Stardock Forums Top

Btw, for those who asking about purge CursorFX. You can use this guide to purge that old CursorFX v2 :

https://forums.stardock.com/485856/cursorfx-support-faq#reinstalling

I think, if you have both version installed. Please try this steps.

1) Uninstall CursorFX v4 first. Reboot.

2) Do the purge using the step above. Reboot

3) Reinstall CursorFX v4. Reboot

Retest and report back.

If some of the old cursors preview don't show up. Close CursorFXconfig.exe, do the delete "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes\Preview" folder. Start CursorFXconfig.exe

Here what I get from my system.

Thank you,

Basj
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 17

Finally it applied a cursor.    So why is it so slow to load?

As a test, if you rename:

\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes

To:

\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes.OLD

Open the CursorFX UI. Does it open quicker?

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I removed everything including my installed cursor packs.
Rebooted.

Clean installed CursorFX 4 and everything worked as should be expected, including faster startup.

Put all my old installed cursor packs back in the default location (now 125 packs in total) and the program started after about 15-20 seconds and seems to work ok.

Still takes 15-20 seconds to start every time. As I mentioned earlier, I have a total of 125 cursor packs installed, but the themes preview folder only has 22 files.

The cursors seem to perform well (or better even, than with 2.16). The startup delay is a little bit annoying, but not really a big issue.


Hope this helps a little.

 

Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Yrgal, reply 21

As I mentioned earlier, I have a total of 125 cursor packs installed, but the themes preview folder only has 22 files but the themes preview folder only has 22 files.

But the previews for more are showing, yes?  Just a note, not everything in \Themes is not an actual cursor pack; mixed in are effects as well. 

Quoting Yrgal, reply 21

Still takes 15-20 seconds to start every time. 

The cursors seem to perform well (or better even, than with 2.16). The startup delay is a little bit annoying, but not really a big issue.

But still an issue I would want looked at.  Yes, that is a lot of cursors but some caching should be considered if it's causing such delays at any quantity...

Thank you for the feedback, Yrgal.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

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Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting sdRohan, reply 20


Quoting RedneckDude,
reply 17

Finally it applied a cursor.    So why is it so slow to load?



As a test, if you rename:

\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes

To:

\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes.OLD

Open the CursorFX UI. Does it open quicker?

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

I renamed the cursor themes directory to .old  CFX opens immediately.  

 

I was just on the phone with Don5318 and while we were talking I opened CFX with the themes forlder at default, it took well over a full minute to load the dialog config box.

 

Now I do have over 500 cursors, but the older version of CFX doesn't take forever to load.   So, seems there's work to be done there.

 

I have over 1200 WB skins which causes WB Config to be slow to populate, but it loads pretty much immediately.....just for comparison.  Cursor files are miniscule compared to WB files.

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Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ok, I added 95 cursors to the NEW themes directory. Took 24.71 seconds to load the config window.  I hope this info helps.   Maybe, until this is sorted, I'll just load what I am using into the directory/program.  

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

By comparison, with the full 500+ themes directory active, it took 2:13.07 to load the config window. Using stopwatch on my phone.

 

Oh, and the config window still doesn't show all of the cursors, so I must assume some are incompatible. All that are shown have previews, but there are nowhere near 500 cursors loading into it.  That needs to be worked on. I have way too many older cursors that I am not willing to give up.