BarEyes

BarEyes is a small Windows application whose purpose is to help you place a pair of animated eyes in your system tray area. The eyes automatically follow the mouse cursor, and they wink and sleep.

Portable utility

You can take advantage of the tool’s portability status and run it on the target computer without administrative privileges. Double-clicking on the executable file is sufficient for opening the program’s GUI because there is no installation included in the process.
The utility does not leave traces in your Windows registry and settings files on the target computer so getting rid of it implies only a quick deletion task. In addition, you can keep it stored on pen drives to have it with you all the time. It can be opened directly from the pen drive. All configuration files are saved on the storage device.

Unobtrusive running mode

You can find BarEyes running quietly in the system tray without disturbing your work. The system tray plays a key role in configuring the dedicated parameters.
The tool automatically places an animated pair of eyes in the system tray which move according to your mouse cursor. When the mouse cursor is detected as being idle, the eyes go to sleep. What’s more, you are allowed to realign the eyes.

Configuration settings

BarEyes gives you the possibility to choose between several preset icon animations. In case you get bored of the preset options, you can create your own ones (ANI file format) using third-party applications. However, you need to make sure the animations contain twelve frames and have size values equal to 16x16.
Other important tweaking options worth being mentioned enable you to activate or disable random blinking and sleeping, specify the time interval in seconds when the program performs random blinking and sleeping actions, show a large icon in the system tray, as well as make the eyes look the opposite direction of the cursor.
Tests have shown that BarEyes accomplishes a task quickly. It is not a resource hog so you can keep it running in the background without worrying that it eats up CPU and memory resources.

Final remarks

All in all, BarEyes provides nothing more than an interactive software solution for helping you animate your mouse cursor movements, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.