Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Stardock Corporation 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 Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 2, 1, 0, 3 |
| MD5: | e82c8857dc80c711b7554c7abcd979d2 |
| SHA1: | 845cff99366ea3577d7a9971e51f011b5a6eebfa |
| SHA256: | 42051d5c2e294e85d6210dd7f8f55cca963cfc1a11e5991b06b1db930e7b6297 |
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). It is installed with a couple of know programs including CursorFX published by Stardock Corporation and CursorFX published by Stardock Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Stardock Corporation which was issued by the COMODO CA Limited 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, 1, 0, 3 |
| Size: | 422.64 KB (432,784 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Stardock Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | COMODO CA Limited |
| Effective date: | Sunday, April 10, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs 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: | 0.00197579% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00135253% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00062326% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 206,545,324 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.26 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6.18 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.89 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.26 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 68.87 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 73.18 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.16 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 10.48 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 64 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 120 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 123 | |
| GUI USER count: | 34 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 35 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
50.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
50.00% |
|
Distribution by country
Canada installs about 50.00% of CursorFX.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Compaq |
50.00% |
|
| Toshiba |
25.00% |
|
| Medion |
25.00% |
|
