No feature requests please
Published on December 18, 2007 By ZubaZ In WinCustomize News
If you have 'em, post 'em.
Try to scan the previous reports to make sure it's not already reported.
Make sure you rebooted since installing before reporting any errors.
Make sure you post the OS you are using, the cursor, and the version of CFX, and anything else that is specific to your issue.


If you want to provide other feedback or have a feature request, head over to this post
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on Dec 19, 2007
Vista Home Premium
CFX kept my processor churning at over 50% till uninstall
on Dec 19, 2007
One more ...

Cursor won't show when using a remote desktop session (CFX on the remote desktop). Only mention this since CXP did work over the remote session, even if it could be kind of slow at times.

Vista local machine, XP remote machine, CFX Plus, Aqualix.

on Dec 20, 2007
Further info on the dynamic shadows (both XP and Vista).

On original apply (once selecting dynamic mode), the cursor disappears. On a complete unload and restart after that, the dynamic shadows appear to be working, and subsequent applies (after changing some settings) seem to work fine. However, the light adjustment settings don't appear to do anything (regardless of setting, the shadow looks exactly the same).

Also, in dynamic mode, the preview window still shows what the cursor and shadow look like in static mode.

I can also confirm a post above concerning the status of the cursor after returning from sleep mode in Vista. On restarting, the cursor has reverted to the default windows cursor, and a complete unload and restart of CFX is required to restore the themed cursor.


This all should be fixed in Beta 2. We got it fixed internally.
on Dec 20, 2007

Cursor won't show when using a remote desktop session (CFX on the remote desktop). Only mention this since CXP did work over the remote session, even if it could be kind of slow at times.

Vista local machine, XP remote machine, CFX Plus, Aqualix.


By design CursorFX should disable and show Windows cursors over remote sessions. This is for performance reasons.
If you get totally blank cursors instead, that is a bug we can look into.
on Dec 20, 2007
By design CursorFX should disable and show Windows cursors over remote sessions. This is for performance reasons.
If you get totally blank cursors instead, that is a bug we can look into.


Yep, it's entirely blank.

on Dec 20, 2007
When moving the mouse around very fast, CPU comsumption goes up. CursorFX takes up to 20% CPU speed then. This only happens occasionally at other times it doesn't seem to be affected. Can't figure that one out. Also when transfering my XP cursors to FX then rebooting, my reboot opened two cursors at the same time causing my computer to run REALLY SLOW with 100% CPU usage. I had to reboot at least 4 times to get enough responce to close FX. I did find that after getting all my XP cursors transfered to FX then disabled cursorXP then all seemed to work well. Having both enabled seems to be a bad idea.
on Dec 21, 2007
CTRL-SHIFT-V to disable cursorfx, disables cursorfx, but then there is no cursor at all. also, ctrl-alt-del there is no cursor either. running vista ultimate.

for the record, this also happenend with cursorxp on vista, but since it was cursorXP i just waited until a vista version was avail.

also, it's only the standard cursor that disappears, other curors from the standard vista cursor set are there, like if i hover over a hyperlink, then i get that cursor, or the text cursor on a text document.
on Dec 21, 2007
Prophetizer, there's a new beta (yesterday) that fixes this.
on Dec 21, 2007
Thank you Stardock for this tool. I was missing my CursorXP and Now I have CursorFX.. Love it..
      Happy Camper
on Dec 21, 2007
Cfx unregistered. XP version 2.0

CursorFX stops skinning the cursor when moving the mouse on the desktop if icons are hidden, at rest the cursor reskins.. when desktop icons are shown it skins fine all the time..

this only occurs on the desktop not in the windows or APP gui's.
on Dec 22, 2007
) The dynamic shadow engine is full of bugs, it crashed on my system (fresh install) two times when I activate it...after that seems to keep active.

2) The dynamic shadow parameters doesn't reflect in the preview window, and also they are messy, sometimes they "do something" sometimes they don't...

3) IMPORTANT I've had this issue with CursorXP too... when cursorFX is running, sometimes you can see one frame of the corresponding cursor loaded in teh standard "pointers" windows applet. The workaround for that is to load the exact same cursors in both cursorFX and windows pointers applet, so when cursorFX let to show that other cursor frame, it will be the same cursor.

In other words, if you have cursorFX running and you have the standard windows cursors loaded, you can see one frame of that ugly white arrow when you click using the left cursor for example, the only way to avoid that is to load the same set in the standard pointers applet...got it?

Now...if you load a CursorFX package, since you don't really have them as ANI files you cannot load them in the pointers applet too...SO...I suggest stardock to either solve this bug for once and for all....OR...loads the cursorFX package in both applets automatically.

4) When releasing left or right mouse (with no effect added), the cursor animation starts again, this is not desirable with long cursors, I think stardock should make that an option.

CursorFX video

5) the editor is a bit buggy, showing screen garbage.

6) CursorFX makes the system slow under some circumstances, for example in firefox, if I want to add a ULR link right here in these forums, the mouse movement is sluggish, obviously the PC is having a though time with CursorFX.


...aside of that, I think is great, and I want to support as much as I can as beta tester.
on Dec 22, 2007
To list it is numerous so here goes...
I am using Windows Vista Ultimate x86 and i also tried it out with SP1. And i am using CursorFX Plus.

1. It crashes a lot but at times when applying some skin and at times when just just normally browsing through. With SP1 it crashes more often.
2.in CTRL ALT DEL menu there is no cursor.
3.When disabling it cursor vanishes.
4.There is no where a a UNLOAD option. (ok i know not a bug )
5.When the app crashes cursor vanishes.
6.The interface is bit sluggish at times.
7.When deleting a theme; the red X then the confirmation dialog and then the file is deleted but the entry remains and at times gets filled with gibberish text.
8.preview dialog box doesn't update with Dynamic shadow.
9.When UAC prompt appears there the cursor reverts back to Windows default.

I bought CFX as soon as it got released.. was waiting for it like almost forever.

Hey Yah... Merry Christmas.... Cheers all around...
on Dec 22, 2007
I get the standard Windows cursor on the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen on Vista.
on Dec 23, 2007
One more bug here...it definitely didn't happened with CursorXP

I'm using Maxivista www.maxivista.com

when I turn on or off the extra screen, I lose my cursorFX cursors, instead I get frozen windows cursors (when I mean frozen I mean they are stuck in the first frame)

At that point, cursorFX is still running, but loading the cursors again doesn't work, then I need to close and re-load cursorFX.
on Dec 23, 2007
I have only found a few bugs, and it seems they have all been covered in here.

1: dynamic shadow crashes CFX
2: if i move the mouse rapidly across the screen, it flickers to the regular windows cursor
3: preview doesn't update with dynamic shadow changes
4: deleting cursor themes doesn't remove them from the UI unless you restart
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