The other day, sitting at my laptop, I realized that I needed to add a little variety, otherwise everything was already boring. Changed the wallpaper :). But this seemed to me not enough and I began to look for something else to transform it. Since I don’t like all sorts of programs that change the appearance of the operating system, I decided to simply change the mouse cursor and set it to black, like in Mac OS. This is what my cursor looks like now:
Beautiful, is not it? I like it better than the standard white Windows cursor, which has already become boring. I changed not only the main pointer view, but also the background view, link hover view, etc.
Now I’ll show you and tell you how I changed it all. I think it will be useful to you and you will also add a little freshness to your computer.
First, we need to decide which set of pointers you want to change your cursor to. You need to download the set of pointers that you like. This is usually an archive containing files with the extension .cur. These are cursors.
Download a set of cursors first. You can simply type, for example, in Google the query “cursors for windows 7”, I checked there :). Or here is a link to the archive with the pointers that I have installed -.
We need the files that are in the archive (and in my archive also in the Cursors folder) copy to folder C:\Windows\Cursors.
Copied? Great, let's continue.
Let's go to Start, Control panels. Switch viewing to Large icons and choose Mouse.
A window will open in which we go to the tab “Pointers”. We select the pointer we need, for example first “Main Index” and press the button Review… The folder C:\Windows\Cursors will open immediately (to which we have already copied our new pointers). Highlight the desired pointer and press the button Open.
You will see that one pointer has changed. Do this for all the other pointers, or just the ones you want to change.
