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Hi Hopachi
Im new to windows 8 (my XP machine has all but died!) and was disappointed with the range of cursors available. But then Google brought me here!
I LOVE the media centre aero colored which I downloaded but then my laptop asked me what it should open the file with ..........um..........sorryIm not too clever with the technicalities, please could you tell me know how to do it?
Thank you![]()
Hi there, welcome to the forums!
That cursor is one of my favorites as well.

Sorry there are no instructions (yet) but I'll show you how it's done here in this post.
There are even ways to install the theme through inf files or registry settings but I'll cover the usual / manual install.
Changing the cursor (theme) workaround:
To use the new file(s) first unzip/open the downloaded file. There you find a folder and/or in that folder the needed files. Then you can place those (extracted) files, the static (*.cur), or animated files, in this case, (*.ani) anywhere you want (Windows cursors are placed in "C:\Windows\Cursors" so this might be the ideal place where you'll need to browse to the files).

You then need to access mouse settings from Control Panel -> Mouse or by right clicking on the Desktop -> Personalization

That will open the cursor settings then go to pointers:

You can double-click the ones needed to be changed or select each one and go to browse. Here we browse to our cursor folder needed (where you placed the extracted cursor files).

After all is changed you can even save (see below: select "save-as" and enter a theme name) the cursor theme (scheme) as a new scheme and the settings will be kept for later use, in case the cursors get changed by you or the Windows Themes.

That's it.
Hope this helps.

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