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- With Windows 95, Microsoft provides a way to change the look of
- the cursor, which MicroSoft now calls the mouse pointer -- perhaps
- because the pointers come in different varieties to indicate different
- functions. Whether you speak of a cursor, a pointer, a marker or a
- thingamajig, the little whatchamacallits are now available in bright
- colors and amazing variety.
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- To point to different programs or different functions, you can use a
- fireplace with a crackling fire, a dog with a wagging tail, an
- arrow with a wagging tail, a pony, a dripping faucet, a juggler,
- candles, cavorting dinosaurs -- the list goes on into the
- hundreds. There is even a bright red apple -- provided by
- Microsoft in a friendly moment.
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- This collection includes more than 350 of the new-style cursors.
- You'll enjoy animation, three-dimensional effects and wit.
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- And you'll enjoy the fact that all these are free. No registration is
- required, although one author does offer even more samples of his
- creativity to people who register the collection you will find on
- computer bulletin board systems as EPCURS1.ZIP.
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- You do need Windows 95 to use these. And you need to be running 32-bit
- disk access to get animation (although you can use the cursors without
- animation if your system requires you to run Windows 95 in another
- mode).
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- To learn if you are running 32-bit disk access, just go to Settings and
- Control Panel, Then check the performance tab of System in the Control
- Panel to see if you are running 32-bit disk access. If you aren't, click
- on Details to find out how you can change.
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- To use the pointers, the procedure is simple.
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- 1. Start Windows 95.
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- 2. Using the Windows 95 Run command, type A:\INSTALL in the
- dialogue box (or B:\INSTALL if this diskette is in the B drive).
- Press Enter.
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- 3. Follow the instructions on the screen. The animated and
- three-dimensional cursors will be placed in C:\WINDOWS\CURSORS.
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- 4. At the end of the installation, you will be back in Windows
- 95. Go to Settings
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- 5. Go to the Control Panel
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- 6. Double-click on Mouse
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- 7. Double-click on Pointers
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- 8. Scroll through the list of pointers and pick one to change;
- the first -- Normal Select -- is the pointer you see most
- often, but you may wish to start by assigning an animated
- cursor to a less frequently used function.
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- 9. Click on Browse
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- 10. Click on the Cursors folder
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- 11. Select a cursor by clicking on its icon; you will see an
- example in the Preview box
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- 12. Once you have chosen a pointer, click Open to keep the
- pointer and return to the Properties for Mouse dialogue box.
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- 13. To change back to the standard pointer, make sure the
- pointer name is highlighted in the Mouse Properties dialogue
- box. Then click on Use Default.
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- 14. Enjoy the cursors. Don't try to see them all at one session.
- But do explore the possibilities.
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- If you are looking for even more such cursors on the Internet, in
- on-line services or on computer bulletin board systems, you won't need
- to download any of the following. They're all included in this
- collection.
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- ANIMATE1.ZIP
- ANIMATE2.ZIP
- ANIPACK.ZIP
- BUBCUR.ZIP
- CURSORS.ZIP
- DOOMCUR.ZIP
- EPCURS1.ZIP
- MOTION.ZIP
- POINTRS1.ZIP
- POINTRS2.ZIP
- PYREYE.ZIP
- SHWORD.ZIP
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- Also included are two programs Microsoft provides for editing cursors
- and creating your own: IMAGEDIT.EXE and ANIEDIT.EXE. Both will
- be placed in the C:\WINDOWS\CURSORS subdirectory.
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- The Microsoft programs are in the Windows NT 3.5 Resource kit. The
- complete kit is available on the Internet's World Wide Web at:
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- ftp://www.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt35/i386/I386.EXE
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