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Published on October 16, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Ok, so you've skinned your Windows UI, added a funky wallpaper, switched out your icons, and tossed a few gadgets around your desktop.  Your UI is fully customized.  Well, almost fully.  Chances are you still have that regular, boring windows cursor on your screen.  If that's the case, go grab yourself a copy of CursorXP and check out some of these killer cursor themes.

In my opinion, these are some of the finest cursors done all year.

WarBird
Drill'n Boss

Prototype 04
J. Aroche

GlassMaxX
basj

Sexy
J. Aroche

Secret BB
Quentin94

Oxide
TYCUS


Comments
on Oct 16, 2007
Very, very cool.

Now all we need is CursorVista
on Oct 16, 2007
Yer def. right there Zoomba. These are a few of my fav's.
on Oct 16, 2007

Very, very cool.

Now all we need is CursorVista




totally agree with Zubaz!
on Oct 16, 2007
CursorXP works fine on Vista for me.

Give it a try if you haven't yet.
on Oct 16, 2007
I have tried CursorXP on Vista a few times. It runs fine until you have UAC popup, then the cursor disappears. At least that is what has happened on the 2 machines I have tried it on. True I could just disable UAC with Tweak Vista, if I really wanted to. It is just one of those annoying glitches.
on Oct 16, 2007
I have the UAC turned off. Guess that's why it works for me. Good to know.
on Oct 16, 2007
I have UAC on, but set to auto-elevate without a prompt - think it would work?
on Oct 16, 2007
I do have UAC turned off; while I can turn on CursorXP, my problem is that within about 10 minutes or so of turning it on, the cursor gets jumpy. I'll try move the cursor, and it will take a little to actually catch up with with my request (sometimes as long as a full second). Once that behavior starts, it doesn't stop until I disable CursorXP, restart Vista, then turn CursorXP back on. "Regular" cursors don't do that.

I may not have a computer with the highest specs in the world, but they're much higher than necessary to run Vista Home Premium and a bunch of other programs at once. I've tried futzing with as many settings and programs as I could think of, done a lot of web searching, and even tried using a diagnostic boot to try to find which program might be interfering with CursorXP. I'm stumped. Does anyone have any ideas?
on Oct 16, 2007
Sounds like you'll have to wait for Cursor Vista, I must just be lucky...for once.
on Oct 16, 2007
Well I gotta say it looks great to see some of my stuff up there All the other cursors are just great! And great skinners too!
on Oct 16, 2007
After all these years I've just made my first Cursor set....... No laughing, OK?

WWW Link
on Oct 16, 2007
I'm real proud to have my cursor up there with all that great art work.
BoXXi, your cursors look good, I'll check 'em out when I get home form work in the morning.
on Oct 16, 2007
thankx for the mention, Zoomba   
on Oct 16, 2007
Yup thanks Zoomba Glad I could make it on this list along with awesome artists
on Oct 17, 2007
CursorXP is very unstable in Vista so I don't use it anymore, haven't since Vista...any chance we can see CursorVista soon?