Windows 10: Custom Cursor Theme won't stay applied?

Hi all, never used this reddit before but I was hoping someone here could help me.

I've slowly started to customize my PC more and more, and recently decided to change my cursors. I made a custom theme for the cursor set and applied it. However, there's one problem. Whenever I restart my PC, the cursor theme goes back to default. When I go to change the theme, it says the Custom theme is selected, but it doesn't actually apply any of the custom cursors unless I select another theme then select the Custom one and apply it.

Here's a picture to show what I mean. And here's a GIF.

I tried following a thread online to edit my registry keys so windows wouldn't change cursor with theme, since I use Wallpaper Engine, but it didn't do anything and Windows keeps reverting the cursor theme to default. Can anybody help me out? I'm a bit slow ^^

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Custom Cursors


White dotted spinners for the Default Windows cursors (working and busy)
dotted-spinner-white.zip

Previews:













*jagged edges are due to GIF image compression, the actual cursors are smoother.

How to install:
Extract/place the cursor files from zip in the cursor folder (usually C:\Windows\Cursors) then got to mouse pointer settings and browse for the installed files after selecting the working and busy states. Apply or even save the new scheme under a new name, to easily switch back between different cursors via the drop-down theme list:

 

Custom Cursors


Snagged and applied to my new Anakin theme

 

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).
Figure 1:




You then need to access mouse settings from Control Panel -> Mouse or by right clicking on the Desktop -> Personalization
Figure 2:




That will open the cursor settings then go to pointers:
Figure 3:




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).
Figure 4:




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.