Author: Martin

Use Custom Cursors in Windows

The default cursor set that ships with Windows is not really friendly to the eye and it happens from time to time that I have to search for the cursor on the screen because it blends in nicely if the page has a similar background color.

Thankfully though Microsoft added an easy way to add custom cursor sets to Windows that are easy on the eyes and professional looking. They do change more visibly as well usually and are better to spot on any kind of screen.

Inspiration came from a Donation Coder forum entry. Users of the forum mentioned several mouse cursor sets and I immediately headed out and tried them out.

Installation is always the same. The custom cursor sets are extracted to your hard drive and contain the mouse cursor icons and a inf file that is used to add them to the mouse cursor schemes of Windows. Right-click that inf file and choose install from the menu.

Go to the Control Panel afterwards, click on mouse and there on Pointers. The newly installed custom cursor set shoud be available in the top pull down menu named Schemes.

Custom alpha blended (semi-transparent) mouse cursors by XsX