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Built-in Presets

What are built-in presets?

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Built-in presets are ready-made profiles that ship with FriskyMouse. Each one is a complete, hand-tuned configuration covering every visual feature (spotlight color and glow, click ripple style, mouse trail, screen dimming, scroll indicator) designed for a specific use case (streaming, teaching, screenshots, etc.).

Instead of opening every settings page and dialing in colors, opacities, and effect combinations from scratch, you can apply a preset with one click and get a coherent look that’s already been tested. They’re the fastest way to see what FriskyMouse can do, and a solid starting point if you want to customize.

Built-in presets behave like regular profiles in most ways. They appear in the same list, you apply them the same way, and you can assign them to Quick Switch hotkey slots. The key difference: they’re read-only. You can’t rename, delete, or save changes over them. To customize a preset, you duplicate it first and edit the copy. This keeps the originals as clean references and lets future versions of FriskyMouse ship updates to the presets without overwriting your personal tweaks.

FriskyMouse currently ships with four built-in presets, listed below.

The four presets

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Preset What it’s tuned for
Cyberpunk Neon Magenta + cyan neon palette with glowing spotlight and ripple trails.
Minimalist White Clean, low-key white spotlight. No glow, subtle clicks. Good for screenshots and docs.
Classroom High-contrast yellow spotlight with red clicks for lessons and tutorials.
Streamer Bold colors and full effects (spotlight glow, ripples, mouse trail) tuned for streaming.

Each preset bundles settings for spotlight, click ripples, screen dimming, mouse trail, and scroll indicator. Apply one and the matching look kicks in immediately.

How to identify them

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In the Profiles page, built-in presets are marked with a Built-in badge next to the profile name. They behave differently from user profiles:

  • The Rename and Delete buttons are disabled when a built-in is selected.
  • The preset’s JSON file is refreshed on every app launch so updates ship reliably.
  • Manual edits to the preset’s JSON file are overwritten on next launch.

Customizing a preset

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The supported flow is Duplicate → Load → tweak → Save. The original built-in stays untouched as a clean reference; your duplicate is fully editable.

  1. In the Profiles page, select the built-in you want to customize (for example, Cyberpunk Neon).

  2. Click Duplicate. Enter a name in the dialog. It defaults to <preset> (Copy).

    The new profile appears in the list as a regular user profile (no “Built-in” badge).

  3. Click Load on the duplicate to make it the active profile. Its settings are now applied live.

  4. Open any feature page (Spotlight, Mouse Trail, Screen Dimming, etc.) and tweak settings: color, opacity, glow, ripple shape, trail length, anything. Changes take effect immediately.

  5. Return to the Profiles page and click Save current settings as profile. Type the duplicate’s name and confirm Overwrite when prompted.

    Your tweaks are now persisted into the duplicate’s JSON file. The original built-in preset is unchanged.

Why built-in presets are read-only

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Keeping built-ins write-protected lets us ship preset updates in future versions of FriskyMouse (bug fixes, color tweaks, or entirely new presets) and have them reach every user automatically. Your customizations live on the duplicate and are never touched by app updates.

If you want to start fresh, just delete your duplicate; the built-in itself is always there as a reference.

File location

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Built-in presets are saved alongside your profiles, but with hyphenated filenames:

Display name Filename on disk
Cyberpunk Neon Cyberpunk-Neon.json
Minimalist White Minimalist-White.json
Classroom Classroom.json
Streamer Streamer.json

The folder location depends on how you run FriskyMouse:

  • Installed mode: %LOCALAPPDATA%\FriskyMouse\Profiles\
  • Portable mode: the Profiles\ folder next to FriskyMouse.exe

Learn more

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