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Installation of animated cursors
You have to install animated cursors / cursors in Windows before you can use them. Copy the files to your choice of folder.
I. Older windows versions: Choose "Start/Settings/Control Panel/Mouse" - continue with III.
II. Vista or Win7:
Start control panel:
 Click the windows logo in the bottom left desktop corner, then click "Control Panel".
There are two ways to reach the cursor installation menu using the control panel:
1.) Look for category "Hardware and Sound"
If there's already a "Mouse" menu click on it otherwise click "Hardware and Sound" and it appears the menu "Devices and Printers":
click on "Mouse" there. Continue with III.
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2.) Look for category "Appearance and Personalization"
If there's already a "Change desktop background" menu click on it, otherwise click "Appearance and Personalization" and it appears the menu "Personalization":
click on "Change desktop background" there.
On the left side look for "Change mouse pointers:
click "Change mouse pointers". Continue with III.
HINT: in case you have choosen the control panel option "View by: small Icons" or "View by: Large icons", you don't see the categories above. You see only a lot of menu entries with icons there. In that case just click the entry "Mouse":
click "Mouse"
III. Then same handling in all Windows versions:
In the "Mouse Properties" click on the "Pointers" tab.
All Windows versions excepted Win95 know 15 different cursor types, Win95 knows only 14 several pointer types:
Win 95 doesn't know the Link Select cursor (windows and active desktop).
Select a pointer, for example "Normal Select" or "Busy". Double-click on it. Then choose a cursor from your choice of folder. A single click will give you a preview in the bottom left corner. The animation is a little bit slow, but in reality the animated cursors run alot faster. Finally press "Open" and click "OK" to exit and confirm the animated cursor as your cursor.
| Tip: Cursor preview There's a simple way to see a little cursor preview. In Windows Explorer right-click the cursor file and select "Properties" in the appearing shortcut menu. |
 Another good presentation how to install animated cursors on your windows computer was written by Ron White on groovyPost. Ron is a best-selling author of "How Computers Work".
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