Published on June 3, 2009 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Today, Stardock has released an update to its popular cursor changing and creation application, CursorFX Plus.  CursorFX allows users to create and use custom cursors on both Windows Vista and Windows XP.  It takes advantage of the visual effects features in Windows to enable things like alpha blended cursors, image effects, and more.

This update includes:

  • Fix for HUGE cursors in the preview
  • Fixes suspend/hibernate issues
  • Misc Win7 Tweaks

This update does not officially support Windows 7 at this time, but it should be work without much issue.  Current users of CursorFX Plus can download the update via Stardock’s Impulse.  CursorFX is available for $19.95, and discounts are available for Object Desktop subscribers.

For more information, please visit www.cursorfx.com.

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on Jun 03, 2009
Does it officially support 64bit?
on Jun 03, 2009

mickeko
Does it officially support 64bit?
Not *officially* . .but it'd be crazy not to, right?  (It's been tested on Vista and Windows7 32 and 64 and nothing has broken [the only smoke comign out of the cursor are the ones I set it to use.  ])

 

on Jun 03, 2009

I had issues with the pointer getting stuck over links in firefox and such that made me disable it. I'll test and see if it's resolved.

UPDATE: Applying cursors/effects are still bugged. *sigh*

on Jun 03, 2009

Just did the update on a Vista Home Premium 64 bit system and everything seems to be working okay, even effects and trails.

on Jun 03, 2009

Philly0381
Just did the update on a Vista Home Premium 64 bit system and everything seems to be working okay, even effects and trails.

You mean you don't need to apply twice when switching any setting?

on Jun 03, 2009

mickeko



Quoting Philly0381,
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Just did the update on a Vista Home Premium 64 bit system and everything seems to be working okay, even effects and trails.


You mean you don't need to apply twice when switching any setting?

After downloading the update, rebooted the system.  It applied the cursor I was using.  Opened CursorFX and applied an effect and I had to apply the cursor skin again in order for the effect to show up.  Is that what you are refering to mickeko?  It seem logical to me since I was changing a cursor setting, didn't take it as a bug.

on Jun 03, 2009

having toclick apply twice is not a bug, it aldso happens on the 32 bit version, what i would like to see is a way for the cursor trails and click effects to be coloured the same way as the cursor can, there seem to be a lot of blue effects yet not all cursors are blue, seems odd not to be ablt to change their colour

on Jun 03, 2009

Philly0381

After downloading the update, rebooted the system.  It applied the cursor I was using.  Opened CursorFX and applied an effect and I had to apply the cursor skin again in order for the effect to show up.  Is that what you are refering to mickeko?  It seem logical to me since I was changing a cursor setting, didn't take it as a bug.

Regardless of what I've done, when I click apply, CursorFX will remove the current cursor skin and revert to windows default. I then have to apply again to get the cursor properly skinned again. It may be a minor problem, but I find it hugely annoying when tweaking settings.

I've not run into the stuck cursor issue with this build yet. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that issue is resolved.

on Jun 03, 2009

Anakey
having toclick apply twice is not a bug

I disagree. I expect "apply" to apply changes I've made, not "unapply" all skinning. It's either a bug in software or UI design.

on Jun 03, 2009

its the same when you apply an icon package or windows blind in that it reverts to the default in between the changes though you don't see the in between state

on Jun 04, 2009
As much as I loved the original, I stopped using it for the simple yet annoying reason that there were times when the cursor would disappear under a window opposed to over it - has that bug been fixed yet?
on Jun 04, 2009

Anakey
its the same when you apply an icon package or windows blind in that it reverts to the default in between the changes though you don't see the in between state

No, it's not. I don't need to click apply twice when applying something in IP or WB.

on Jun 04, 2009

Thanks for the feedback everyone!  I'll take it all back to the dev. 

on Jun 04, 2009

SENTiNEL
As much as I loved the original, I stopped using it for the simple yet annoying reason that there were times when the cursor would disappear under a window opposed to over it - has that bug been fixed yet?

I've not seen it yet. But I haven't used this version for too long.

on Jun 04, 2009

Today, Stardock has released an update to its popular cursor changing and creation application, CursorFX Plus.  CursorFX allows users to create and use custom cursors on both Windows Vista and Windows XP.  It takes advantage of the visual effects features in Windows to enable things like alpha blended cursors, image effects, and more.This update includes:Fix for HUGE cursors in the preview Fixes suspend/hibernate issues Misc Win7 Tweaks This update does not officially support Windows 7 at this time, but it should be work without much issue.  Current users of CursorFX Plus can download the update via Stardock’s Impulse.  CursorFX is available for $19.95, and discounts are available for Object Desktop subscribers.For more information, please visit www.cursorfx.com.
Hmm ok how do u get the discount if you are an OD subscriber? I tried simply putting CursorFX+ in my cart in impulse but that didn't give me any discount?

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