Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Stardock Systems Inc publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
CursorFX.exe
CursorFX by Stardock Systems Inc (Signed)
| Version: | 2, 0, 0, 1 |
| MD5: | ddbbb9454e8927d7fa4f5c5ff0e68d35 |
| SHA1: | 2230c5999abb86a4bbe7b2dfffb6eda791df80e4 |
Overview
cursorfx.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). This is typically installed with the program CursorFX published by Stardock Corporation and is most likely removed by most users once installed (54% removed). The file is digitally signed by Stardock Systems Inc which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | cursorfx.exe |
| Publisher: | Stardock Corporation |
| Product name: | CursorFX |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\stardock\cursorfx\cursorfx.exe |
| File version: | 2, 0, 0, 1 |
| Size: | 407.5 KB (417,280 bytes) |
| Build date: | 1/28/2010 12:57 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Stardock Systems Inc |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 18, 2009 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“Stardock CursorFX is a program that lets you use and create incredibly cool looking Windows mouse cursors. CursorFX is a utility which allows you to have much more flexibility in the cursors you use to interact with Windows. Adding a shadow under Windows XP and Vista was hardly a great advance and therefore CursorFX exists to give you more-much more. CursorFX users can create and use cursors that look and feel far superior to anything ...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'CursorFX' → "C:\Program Files\Stardock\CursorFX\CursorFX.exe"
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00554558% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00219263% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00335295% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 153,125 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 14.87 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 9.79 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.32 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 14.87 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 76.55 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 81.04 MB | |
| Working set: | 9.15 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 22.71 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 58 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 84 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 87 | |
| GUI USER count: | 18 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 19 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
80.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
20.00% |
|
Distribution by country
NA installs about 60.00% of CursorFX.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
|
