Built-in Presets

Built-in presets are profiles that come with FriskyMouse. Each preset sets up Spotlight, Click Effects, Mouse Trail, Screen Dimming, and Scroll Indicator for one use case. Other features use their default settings.

Built-in presets appear in the same list as your own profiles. You load them the same way and can assign them to Quick Switch slots. Unlike your own profiles, they are read-only. To customize one, duplicate it and edit the copy.

The four presets

Preset	Tuned for
Cyberpunk Neon	Magenta and cyan neon palette with a glowing spotlight and ripple trails
Minimalist White	A low-key white spotlight with no glow and subtle clicks, for screenshots and docs
Classroom	A high-contrast yellow spotlight with red clicks, for lessons and tutorials
Streamer	Bold colors and full effects, for streaming and screen recording

How built-in presets differ from your profiles

On the Configuration Profiles page, built-in presets have a Built-in badge next to their name. They differ from your own profiles in these ways:

Rename and Delete are disabled.
FriskyMouse rewrites each preset’s file every time it starts. Changes saved over a preset, including manual edits to its JSON file, are replaced with the original.
New versions of FriskyMouse can update the presets. Your duplicates are never changed by updates.

Customizing a preset

Duplicate the preset, load the copy, change settings, then save them back to the copy. The original preset stays unchanged.

On the Configuration Profiles page, select the preset you want to customize, for example Cyberpunk Neon.
Click Duplicate and enter a name. The suggested name is the preset name followed by (Copy).

The copy appears in the list as a regular profile, without the Built-in badge.
Select the copy and click Load to apply it.
Change settings on any feature page, such as Spotlight or Mouse Trail. Changes apply immediately.
Return to the Configuration Profiles page, click Save Current Settings as Profile, enter the copy’s name, and confirm the overwrite.

Your changes are now saved in the copy. Repeat steps 4 and 5 whenever you want to adjust it. To start over, delete the copy and duplicate the preset again.

File location

Built-in presets are stored with your other profiles, with hyphens in place of spaces in the file name:

Preset	File name
Cyberpunk Neon	`Cyberpunk-Neon.json`
Minimalist White	`Minimalist-White.json`
Classroom	`Classroom.json`
Streamer	`Streamer.json`

For the folder location, see Where profiles are stored.