Windows 10: Cant Change Cursor Look To Be A Custom On Windows 10

I made some custom cursors and there all 32x32 in the .cur format. but when i try to change it on the mouse properties tab and select the normal cursor i made it wont work. but the built in like magnified do work.

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change cursor look

Hi,

I'm Paul, a fellow customer like you & a Windows 10 Independent Advisor. Kindly follow the steps below & you should all be good.

Click "Start" > search "Control Panel" & open it > click the "Mouse icon" > click the "Pointers tab"

• To give all of your pointers a new look, click the Scheme drop-down list, and then click a new mouse pointer scheme.

• To change an individual pointer, under Customize, click the pointer you want to change in the list, click Browse, click the pointer you want to use, and then click Open.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any further questions. I'd be glad to help you out.

Sincerely,

Paul A.

Microsoft Independent Advisor

 

Custom Cursors

Please keep all the rainbow color looping as they are. It is now perfect. The black border is the best color to use as the outline. It brings a good contrast, making sure that all the colors appears well.







As a reminder, please keep in mind that this cursor set must be suitable for Windows 10 - 19H1 or above, so you must include all the 17 cursor roles in the same set.

As for the animation steps and the number of colors used, make sure that all the 17 cursor roles have all the same colors in the same order and the same animation steps playing the animation at the same speed. Good luck Hopachi and thank you for making this cursor set on my behalf.

 

Custom Cursors


A complete tutorial on changing mouse pointers can be found here:
Mouse Pointers - Change in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Installing a cursor theme:
Complete cursor packs can include an install file (install.inf) right-click -> install should install the new mouse pointer theme entirely. To use the new theme, select it from the list: (Figure 2 -> Figure 3).
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Changing or installing a cursor theme manually:
To use the new cursor file(s) first unzip/open the downloaded file. There you find a folder and/or in that folder the needed files. Then you can place those (extracted) files, the static (*.cur), or animated files, in this case, (*.ani) anywhere you want (Windows cursors are placed in "C:\Windows\Cursors" so this might be the ideal place where you'll need to browse to the files).
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You then need to access mouse settings from Control Panel -> Mouse or by right clicking on the Desktop -> Personalization
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That will open the cursor settings then go to pointers:
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You can double-click the ones needed to be changed or select each one and go to browse. Here we browse to our cursor folder needed (where you placed the extracted cursor files).
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After all is changed you can even save (see below: select "save-as" and enter a theme name) the cursor theme (scheme) as a new scheme and the settings will be kept for later use, in case the cursors get changed by you or the Windows Themes.
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That's it.