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Windows cursor
File type: Graphics file
A cur file extension is related to the mouse cursor image format used by Microsoft Windows. A cur file stores mouse cursor (mouse pointer).
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: June 23, 2025
The cur file extension is used for one format of cursors used in Windows.
The cur file contains cursors (the mouse pointer design) in Microsoft Windows 3.x and later versions of Windows operating systems.
In Windows 95, NT and later, this format has been largely superseded by the ani which allows animated and color cursor designs.
The CUR format also allows transparency so that cursors do not have to appear rectangular when displayed on screen.
The cur files are not compressed. However, as the images that they contain are usually quite small, compression is not really needed anyway.
Use XnView to simple view cursors files or specialized software for making windows cursors.
Various tools are able to transform *.cur files to other file formats.
Software applications that can open cur files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit cur files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving cur files:
Microsoft Windows
Programs for viewing cur files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Software apps that create cur files:
Microsoft Windows
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Software apps that convert cur files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that import cur files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that export cur files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that print cur files:
Multiplatform
Software applications that handle other tasks involving cur files:
Microsoft Windows
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