The location once you install CursorFX for themes is the following folder:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes

Putting either type of file in that folder and CursorFX will display and apply them.

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CursorFX stored themes in the following location:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Stardock\CursorXP\Themes

Users should copy themes from the CursorXP theme folder into the CursorFX theme folder to see them in CursorFX.  Do this before you uninstall CursorXP as the uninstall will remove the CursorXP folder from %PROGRAMFILES%.  We will update CursorFX to do this automatically on first run in a soon-to-be-release build.

 

 

We would be interested in hearing what you like better about CursorXP vs. CursorFX.  Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts to help us make our products better.

CursorFX should take over file associations for .CurXPTheme and .CursorFX. Both should get custom icon and open and edit shell associations, that is, if you double click a downloaded .cursorFX or .CurXPTheme file CFX will automatically copy it into the proper directory and ask you if you want to also apply the theme.

Can you confirm if the .CurXPTheme file association (icon+double click action+right click->Modify/Edit) is broken? If so, also hte .CursorFX file association should be broken because both formats are handled equally.

I can confirm.
Neither will self install during download.
Neither will install using a doubleclick.

To install .cursorfx I just manually move to the appropriate directory
To install .curXPTheme I open in the "New Package" dialog and saveas .cursorfx then move to the appropriate directory.

Lantec:



Any reason you redo/rename the curXPThemes? I've just been moving them over "as is", seems to work fine. Just wondering if I'm missing out on anything. Thanks.

Merged interface with mouse options(It's hard to find in Menu Start programs sometimes), faster tabbing(I don't need to wait 1-2 seconds to change tab).
You can also reset preview animation in CursorXP, and you can preview all states(Even the click ones).

Also i like to see automatic cursor change when running CursorXP or CursorFX file(Doesn't work), i like the editor for CursorFX, it's better for beginners(Now you can create hotspots by clicking on cursor for clicked state).

Have done this. Files are in all of the proper locations but nothing shows up in the FX control panel. Would like to have a load package button like icon packager, where you can download from web or from disk. I can't get it to work at all. I just installed the now update today.

This is dumb or what? Having to jump through hoops like this! To get cursor xp working with cursor fx. Average person is going to say heck with it and go back to cursor xp..... Love Cursor fx, but come on now!

I just right-click the cursorXP theme, choose 'open with', and choose CFX. That works for me.......

killajosh, if I am not mistaken that method does not work with CursorFX Free version. It does not work on my machine and several others who have posted have confirmed this. Do you have CursorFX Plus?

Backed up my cursor themes, uninstalled both CFXPlus and CXPPlus, restarted, cleared all old folders and shortcuts and restarted again. Reinstalled CXPPlus and put my backed up themes in the themes folder and all is well with the world again. CXP for me, for now. By the way, I'm an XP user until they don't support it anymore, so I guess I really don't need CFX anyway. Nice looking product though.

Doesn't seem to work with CursorFX cursors here, either, I'm afraid. On XPP SP2.

I'm waiting for some direction from SD about the proper method of installation. There is nothing in the install routine (I used SDC, BTW) that prompts you to do anything - it just installs. No information in the History link. No information in the Online Guide that is linked in the About pane of CursorFX Control Panel.

I assumed, correctly as it turned out, that the theme files had been moved to D&S\All Users... and copied all my .curXPtheme files into the new directory. When I launched CFX, they were all there in the list. Only problem is, none of the themes will "Apply" - clicking that button does nothing, the cursor set remains unchanged. I can fiddle with the attributes & they will all get "applied" to the preview, but that's as far as things get.

I had CXP Plus installed & active at the time of the CFX Plus install. The CXP theme I was using is still active - I can toggle between it & the Windows default theme using Ctrl-Shift-C without any problem but I cannot get any other theme to apply, whether .cursorFX or .curXPtheme.

I've been around SD products & loved them for a long, long time. I don't think this app was ready for release, even as a beta, without clear instructions on how to upgrade from CXP.

Looking forward to a release that addresses these issues.

I think the problem people are having is CXP has to be uninstalled (save your themes first) before CFX is installed. I have CFX Plus running on 3 machines (Vista Ultimate,Vista Home Prem and XP Pro)and it runs flawlessly on all three. I dl a theme no matter if it's a .curxptheme or a .cursorfx file and click on the file I get a window that says:

Theme copied into theme common folder:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\CursorFX\Themes

Do you want to make the selected theme the current theme?

i have cursor XP and cursor FX both installed on my computer, i use cursor FX and have no problems running it or any cursor xp theme with it. all i did was open up cursor xp and clicked disable all, went into msconfig and unchecked the box to run cursor xp on startup, then loaded cursor fx applied my cursor and made sure that it was set to run on windows start. everythijng works perfectly.

With apologies to SD, CursorFX is now working normally after a reboot. Each profile I use required a reboot to get it to work. Should have thought of that, I suppose.