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Some themes do not delete (at all... clicking on the X does nothing to them), and some themes turn into jumbles of random characters without previews, until restarted.

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).

The various settings sliders should be labeled such that you know what the slider position represents (light higher / lower and so on).

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.

Bug report:

Cursor disappears when moving a file from one folder to another (click and drag). Tried several cursors including the default CursorFX cursor.

CursorFX version 2.00 Preview 1
XP Pro SP2

Vista Home Premium here. Had difficult time uninstalling CursorXP (probably shouldn't have installed
FX over it). I report the same problem with dynamic shadows (I just won't use that until it's fixed).
Hmm, just noticed I have reverted to a stock pointer in this comment box, wait it's Allante again..no, no it's not...sigh. I couldn't get CursorXP to work with RightClick (it works but it's always the busy animation) and FX is no different.
No other problems except I need trails (must have trails...drool).

Vista Home Premium
CFX kept my processor churning at over 50% till uninstall

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.

This all should be fixed in Beta 2. We got it fixed internally.

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.

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.

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.

Prophetizer, there's a new beta (yesterday) that fixes this.

Thank you Stardock for this tool. I was missing my CursorXP and Now I have CursorFX.. Love it..
      Happy Camper

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.

) 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.

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...

I get the standard Windows cursor on the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen on Vista.

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.

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

High CPU use on Vista Ultimate.

On Vista Ultimate, CPU usage jumps to 30 to 40% as soon as CursorFX is enabled. Sysinternals Process Explorer shows this is mostly due to Tabtip.exe which jumps to 30%. CursorFX itself uses up to 10%. After Ctrl+Shift+V, the combined CPU of these two processes returns to near zero. I have a Wacom tablet so need tabtip.exe.

A Google search came up with an old post saying that CursorXP has the same issue on the Tablet edition of Windows XP.

Another bug:

When used in conjunction with WindowFX3 the cursors are draw behind the WindowFX dropshadows making the cursors to look like they got transparency.

Seems like the latest beta solved the problem with maxivista, thanks guys!

Hi,

Same problem for me. Unable to use CursorFX with Windows Vista Ultimate and Wacom Intuos3.

High CPU usage:




Cursor "blink" all the time with Tablet PC Input Panel:




I hope that you are going to find a solution or a workaround on this problem soon as possible, thanks in advance.

- Windows Vista Ultimate [32-bits]
- CursorFX Plus [Latest build installed via Stardock Central [beta 2]]
- Wacom Intuos3 [latest drivers installed from Wacom Website]
- Ticket ID: STV-185233 [Support Center @ Stardock HelpServe]

Ok, my bug is,,,,,,,,,,, using Cursor Fx, it sticks on the screen... And yes, I have checked my mouse. I have a tail.. No battiers..   So, I just wanted to report it..

I know you all will fix it... Thanks