Blade Cursors

Windows provides a decent variety of visual customization options by default, with different themes for background slideshows, color themes for windows, large library of icons, as well as different cursors. In this regard, Blade Cursors contains a set of static, and animated cursors to replace the original in just about any state.

Content of this package requires to extra third-party components in order to deploy the cursor set on the system. Installation isn’t done by manually changing cursors either. Instead, simply right-clicking the Scheme.inf file and choosing to Install is all there is to the setup process.

Once this step is over, the scheme isn’t applied right away. This needs to be done through the default Mouse Properties panel Windows provides by default. It’s found in the Pointers tab, with the “Blade” tag found in the scheme drop-down menu.

It benefits from all other default pointer options, such as shadow, or trail. All default cursor states are replaced with some static, and animated cursors in the form of blades. Since it works through the default Windows feature, specific pointers can be changed in case they don’t really blend with the rest of the desktop layout.

Inside the package, there are ANI and CUR files to replace normal and help select, working in background, busy, precision select, text select, handwriting, unavailable, resizing in all directions, move, alternate select, as well as link select.