ANNOUNCING: CursorFX 4 - Customize the Windows Mouse Cursor

NEW CursorFX 4 Beta Available to Current Object Desktop Members

Published on March 11, 2020 By Tatiora In Object Desktop News

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

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.

Comments (Page 1)

Jan Oscar

on Mar 11, 2020

Post edited by admin.

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.

RedneckDude

on Mar 11, 2020

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

RedneckDude

on Mar 11, 2020

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.

Raymond_SF

on Mar 11, 2020

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?

RedneckDude

on Mar 11, 2020

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.

BoXXi

on Mar 11, 2020

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.

BigDogBigFeet

on Mar 11, 2020

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

c242

on Mar 11, 2020

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

sdrohan

on Mar 11, 2020

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

Yrgal

reply 1

Missing preview for many curors in left column

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

RedneckDude

on Mar 11, 2020

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.

RedneckDude

on Mar 11, 2020

Backwards compatibility is a must.

Jan Oscar

on Mar 11, 2020

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.

Raymond_SF

on Mar 11, 2020

Removed by admin.

basj

on Mar 11, 2020

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.

RedneckDude

on Mar 11, 2020

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.

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