Windows 10: How do I keep my custom cursors ?

I love my custom cursors, I moved them into the windows/cursors folder but everytime i restart my pc it reverts back and I have to enable it again. am i able to delete all the original cursors? I only want my custom.

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Custom Cursors

Please keep all the rainbow color looping as they are. It is now perfect. The black border is the best color to use as the outline. It brings a good contrast, making sure that all the colors appears well.







As a reminder, please keep in mind that this cursor set must be suitable for Windows 10 - 19H1 or above, so you must include all the 17 cursor roles in the same set.

As for the animation steps and the number of colors used, make sure that all the 17 cursor roles have all the same colors in the same order and the same animation steps playing the animation at the same speed. Good luck Hopachi and thank you for making this cursor set on my behalf.

 

Custom Cursors


White dotted spinners for the Default Windows cursors (working and busy)
dotted-spinner-white.zip

Previews:













*jagged edges are due to GIF image compression, the actual cursors are smoother.

How to install:
Extract/place the cursor files from zip in the cursor folder (usually C:\Windows\Cursors) then got to mouse pointer settings and browse for the installed files after selecting the working and busy states. Apply or even save the new scheme under a new name, to easily switch back between different cursors via the drop-down theme list:

 

Custom Cursors


A complete tutorial on changing mouse pointers can be found here:
Mouse Pointers - Change in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Installing a cursor theme:
Complete cursor packs can include an install file (install.inf) right-click -> install should install the new mouse pointer theme entirely. To use the new theme, select it from the list: (Figure 2 -> Figure 3).
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Changing or installing a cursor theme manually:
To use the new cursor 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).
Figure 1:




You then need to access mouse settings from Control Panel -> Mouse or by right clicking on the Desktop -> Personalization
Figure 2:




That will open the cursor settings then go to pointers:
Figure 3:




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).
Figure 4:




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.
Figure 5:




That's it.