Desktop/Mouse Tools
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CursorFX
Stardock CursorFX is a program that lets you use and create incredibly cool looking Windows mouse cursors. It does this by taking advantage of the new visual effects features of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Users can create and use cursors that look and feel far superior to anything you've ever seen before. Best of all, it's really easy to create your own super-charged cursors. It integrates into the standard Mouse interface of Windows and is easy to turn on and off as you need.
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X-Mouse Button Control
X-Mouse Button Control is a windows application to remap your mouse buttons. You are able to provide an application specific mappings, which means one application can use the mouse differently from another. This is useful for games which do not inherently support the extended mouse buttons, because you can map keys to each button.
What's more, the list of functions available to map to is somewhat more comprehensive than the 32bit MS Intellimouse Software can handle, including things like: Volume...