Since we can change themes, icons, then why not cursors? After all when we are not using applications in full screen mode they are always on our sight.

And here is how to change default cursors with your custom ones:
First we have to find ourselves some cursors. I have included few links below where you can find quality cursors.

After you get your cursors from these sites copy them to

C:\Windows\Cursors

Cursors with *ani extension are animated whereas others ending with *.cur are static.

After you copied your cursors to cursors folder, go to

Start –> Control Panel –> Mouse –> "Pointers" tab –> Highlight the cursor you want to change –> Browse and find your custom cursor –> Apply

Custom cursor resources:
http://www.Deviant Art.com/
http://www.appleblossomart.com/cursors.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~SlvrDragon/other.html

Some of my favorite ones:

One of the most popular source of annoyance in Windows is hanging of the explorer. We will not get into the causes of this problem because there are many possible issues.
Here is a simple solution (at least temporary) for that problem but this will only work if Windows is still responsive.

Shut down the Windows Explorer by hitting Start => Shutdown (Turn off Computer on Windows XP) and click cancel on the shutdown dialog while holding the CTRL, Shift and ALT keys.

This kills the explorer.exe process and all that we have to do now is create a new explorer.exe process to access all windows and functions again in Windows.
Then fire up task manager, click on File => New Task and enter explorer.exe in the window. This will restart the Windows Explorer and hopefully brought the desired result.

You can open the Task manager with CTRL + ALT + DEL . (or Ctrl + Shift + Esc).
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