Now that CursorFX is working on my rig, I'm seeing the Windows default pointer suddenly show up when the cursor is hovered over certain system buttons or items in some dropdown lists. Never saw that with CXP. I tried to snag a screenshot but PrintScreen captures everything but the Windows pointer.

I had to uninstall CursorXP Plus in order to get CurosrFX to even work at all.

I must say also that CursorXP was far superior in creating new cursor themes. In CursorXP when you went to create a new theme, it automatically imported whatever current cursor set you were using (if the cursors were applied by something other than CursorXP) and it imported the X,Y coordinates too. In CursorFX, it imports nothing automatically. A step backwards I would say. Any way of getting this ability added back into CursorFX? (

Tried it and I am not having that problem here at all running on Windows XP SP2 also.

I took the plunge after Snidely's remark about CursorFX working on Vista64 bit. Everything seems to work fine here, including the old CursorXP-themes.

I like the preview option which shows all cursors and animations (I always found it tedious loading each cursor and then testing it on a heap of different windows to see all animations). Well done!

For those that have problems: I first loaded the default Windows cursor through the Windows panel - then unloaded CursorXP plus - backed up all CursorXP-themes - uninstalled CursorXP - installed CursorFX plus through Stardock Central - moved the CursorXP-themes to c:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes (this path would apply to Vista only) - started CursorFX.

We fixed most of the reported problems internally. Pretty much all connected to the file association bug. We will refresh the public distribution today or tomorrow.

LightStar: I don't understand your post about the editor. The CursorFX editor is like a gazilion times better than the CursorXP one. It can import CursorXP and CursorFX themes just fine, can boundle effects and trails into a single .CursorFX theme, features visual hot spot setup, it features new script features, it can easily copy and paste single cursors across themes, etc etc etc.

By the way.. keep up with posting languages. We've already got:
- English
- Italian
- Polish
- French
- Japanese

OK, I will try to explain it a little more Alberto. I create 32 x 32 PNG's and make cursors out of them using Microangelo Toolset 6. I then create a cursor theme for use with one of Stardock's competitors products that I also design themes for, and apply them with that product.

I would then open CursorXP and go to create a new theme. When I did that it would automatically come up with the currently applied cursor sets images and the X,Y coordinates already set. Granted, I would have to re-import the PNG's because the cursors were messed up a little regarding transparency, but I would not have to worry about setting the X,Y coordinates again.

In CursorFX, it is very difficult to set the X,Y coordinates. Sure you can do it by moving the little crosshair in the window, but it can be really tough to align correctly on such a small preview area. It would also be better if you could scroll those values up and down in their respective fields in CursorFX rather than having to type in the coordinates to align crosshair. Maybe I am missing something, but I guess my main concern is that the crosshair is difficult to align for instance to the exact location on the cursor itself, very difficult.

Does this include the fiasco of not automatically moving over previously installed CursorXP themes? From what I'm reading and what I've been told by people using it...that should have been one of the first things in the "this needs to be in the release" list. All these problem reports is making me want to steer clear for a while until everything is all sorted out.   

Spent some time with CursorFX Plus, trying to figure out how to get downloaded themes to work/install on XP Pro SP2. CursorFX was installed for all users, double clicking did not work, right click open with program did not work. I tried cursorxp themes as well as cursorfx themes.
CursorFX Plus was installed from Stardock Central.

The only way I got them to work was copy and paste the downloaded themes uncompressed in "All Users -> Shared Documents -> Stardock -> CursorFX -> Themes.

Version of CursorFX Plus 2.00.002

One more thing, there was the ability in CursorXP to temporarily disable it completely, can that be added to CursorFX?

I want to try the free version again after the push with the fixes Alberto. When are you guys pushing it out today? Also, has anyone seen the problem I posted in #70 above?

This could be related to my ongoing issue of having a lot of cursors available. Besides being extremely slow to load, with a lot of cursors the Control Panel will go transparent when you click anywhere within it. Or the program will simply crash. I applied the latest update today, but once again there is no resolution. I am still waiting for support to advise on this problem. The only solution so far is to not have very many cursors in the Themes folder.

Hi mjbisme. I downloaded the free version of CFX again and the transparency issue still happens with only the CFX 39 cursor themes that come with it located in:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes

I didn't even move my old CXP cursors into the CFX theme folder.

I had 52 CXP cursor themes in my CXP theme folder here:
C:\Program Files\CursorXP\Themes

...and it never went transparent on me. CXP works great but I just wanted to upgrade to the new CFX for kicks.

BTW, when I run CFX the cursors work and I can use old CXP cursors like Harmony okay. It's just annoying that the CFX interface wigs out on me when I want to change cursors. I guess I can keep using it as long as I don't click on the title bar or borders. Hope this transparency thing gets fixed in the future.

Same here, and to support Stardock for all the goodies over the years. I have the Plus version, but it still crashes with the latest version. I just want all the cursors I've downloaded over the years to be available.