Profiles

A profile is a saved copy of your FriskyMouse settings. Save one profile per context, such as teaching, presenting, or recording, and switch between them from the Configuration Profiles page or with a Quick Switch shortcut.

What a profile contains

A profile stores, for each feature, whether it is on and all of its settings:

• Spotlight
• Click Effects (left and right click)
• Mouse Trail
• Screen Dimming
• Scroll Indicator
• Magnifier
• Screen Zoom
• OBS Creator Box

A profile also stores each feature’s activation mode (Toggle or Hold). The shortcut keys themselves are not stored in profiles; they stay the same whichever profile is active.

Example setups

• Teaching: a large spotlight, slow click effects, and screen dimming, so students can follow the cursor on a projector.
• Presenting: a subtle spotlight, bold click effects, and Screen Zoom for live demos.
• Screen recording: click effects, screen dimming with soft edges, and the mouse trail, to show cursor movement in tutorials.
• Everyday use: only a small spotlight and the scroll indicator.

FriskyMouse also includes four ready-made profiles. See Built-in presets.

Manage profiles

All profile actions are on the Configuration Profiles page:

• Save Current Settings as Profile: saves your current settings under a new name, or overwrites an existing profile after you confirm.
• Load: applies the selected profile.
• Duplicate: copies the selected profile, including a built-in preset, under a new name.
• Rename and Delete: change or remove the selected profile.

To change a profile, load it, change settings on the feature pages, then save the current settings under the same name and confirm the overwrite.

Caution

The Default profile can’t be renamed or deleted. Built-in presets can’t be renamed or deleted either, and FriskyMouse restores them each time it starts, so changes saved over a preset are lost. To customize a preset, duplicate it first. See Built-in presets.

Quick Switch

Quick Switch assigns profiles to three shortcut slots. Press a slot’s shortcut to load its profile without opening FriskyMouse. The default shortcuts are Ctrl + Shift + 1, Ctrl + Shift + 2, and Ctrl + Shift + 3; see Keyboard shortcuts to change them.

To assign a profile to a slot:

1. Open the Configuration Profiles page.
2. Select a profile in Available Profiles.
3. In Quick Switch Hotkey Slots, click Assign next to Slot 1, Slot 2, or Slot 3.

Click Clear to remove a profile from a slot.

Tip

Assign a profile with every effect turned off to one slot, so you can turn all effects off with one shortcut.

Where profiles are stored

Profiles are saved as JSON files in a profiles folder:

• Installed version: %LOCALAPPDATA%\FriskyMouse\profiles\
• Portable version: the profiles folder next to FriskyMouse.exe

To back up profiles or move them to another computer, copy these files. See Portable mode for running FriskyMouse from a USB drive.