Make a really cool cursor in paint

I'm going to teach you how to make an AWESOME cursor in MS Paint.

Step 1 Starting

Open up MS Paint.

Comments

[admin]

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

[randofo]

Hey, this is a great instructable and is very informative. Just one thing is missing... pictures! It really helps a lot when trying to follow directions so you should consider taking some photographs. Once you do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks! Thanks for the cool instructable and we hope to publish this soon!

[knexbuild]

I made the .cur file, but when I try to change from the old cursor (the default windows xp cursor) to my custom made cursor the pointer just stays the same instead of changing to my new cursor.

[Seelkadoom]

I did everything correctly, I found it, but everytime I try opening it, my mouse cursor stays the same. Do I have to do someting to acess it? like restart my pc or something?

[PillsHere]

guys i figured out this only works with windows xp, 98, 2000
YEP thats right! not windows vista or windows XP professional

[H3xx]

I feel stupid now. :(
I've been wondering how to do this for some time and have never found a way until now. It pisses me off that it's so simple. Any way, props to a great instructale!

[VelKroChu]

ok where did it go??? i did everything that u said and when i clicked open it did nothing...

[wenpherd]

Hey, this is a great instructable and is very informative. Just one thing is missing... pictures! It really helps a lot when trying to follow directions so you should consider taking some photographs. Once you do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks! Thanks for the cool instructable and we hope to publish this soon!

[volcomfrk80]

there is no "Browse" button on mine it just says "Enable Pointer Shadow?" and then it says "Browse" after that but I tried and it just wont work D:

[SkyWire101]

why won't it let me open my cursor??? it is .cur????

[lolcat360]

oh... its not working for anybody. just forget about it.

[SkyWire101]

where do i change the .bmp to a .cur???

[lolcat360]

you right click it and go to the properties menu and you change the filename from whateveritis.bmp to whateveritis.cur (or .ani) or you could just google a converter and download it.

[SkyWire101]

but when i change the file name it doesn't change the type of file???????????? can u put a link to converter??

[lolcat360]

the link is http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/free-bmp-to-cur.html

[xfirexdemonx]

When I tried this, I did everything you said. When I went to documents, and right click the cursor pic, and changed the name, the apply button is unavailable. what did I do wrong???

[lolcat360]

i dunno... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. this really isnt a great instructable so downloading a cursor maker would probably be better

[jellobellocello]

go to paint save it as blah.cur thats it

[I3uckwheat]

IE sucks

[lolcat360]

it worked when i did it

[Infernowolf]

I have a question for you actually, in Ms paint, when you change the canvas size to 32X32, do you mean change it to pixels, centemeters, or inches

[lolcat360]

pixels