cur and when I hit the Escape key it changes back to the normal Windows Cursor and exits the script. Remember that you have customized your own, saved mouse pointer scheme: you can go back and choose one of the original Windows 7 cursor themes, which were left untouched.Team, I'm looking to create a script that will temporarily change my primary mouse cursor to use a custom png file that I converted to a. And click OK to apply the modified scheme, and start using these pointers right away.To preview the new pointer scheme in Windows 7, just click on the Apply button to try it out.Repeat the same operation until you have configured all the custom pointers you wanted.Once you have found another cursor for the selected event type in your scheme, double-click on it to select it and return to the Mouse Properties dialog.ANI' extension are actually ' animated cursor files' - just like the default Windows 7 waiting pointer (the spinning orb), these have some kind of looped animation built into the cursor - avoid using animated pointers if you are using a netbook or underpowered computer (these consume more resources than the standard, non-animated / static cursors). CUR' file extension files you find in the Cursors folder, which end with an '. Note: Standard cursor files end with the '. The folder that opens is, by default, the Windows 7 cursor folder, but you can navigate to any other folder where you may have saved your own cursor files.Now, go through the list of mouse pointers in the preview, that are sorted by 'situation' - each even type has a cursor associated with it to change any of them, either double-click on the pointer name, or select it and then click on the Browse button: either way, a new dialog window will open, and let you choose another cursor file.Windows 7 will create a copy of the scheme, use the name you chose, and select it automatically.Click on the ' Save As' button, and type a custom scheme name inside the Save Scheme dialog box that opened, and then click OK to accept the new name.

Windows 7 gives you at the bottom a preview of all the cursors that constitute the currently selected mouse pointer scheme before we show you how to use your own cursor files (or other Windows cursors) for the current scheme, let's save it - this ensures that we are making changes to a copy of the mouse pointer scheme, not to the original one.

The ' Pointers' tab should be automatically selected (otherwise, click on it).Type ' mouse pointer' in the search field, and click on the ' Change how the pointer looks' result link to open Windows 7's ' Mouse Properties' dialog.Customize individual cursors in a mouse pointer schemeįollow these steps to choose other cursor files for a mouse pointer scheme in Windows 7:

Cursor changer .cur