diff --git a/ShiftOS.Frontend/GUI/TextControl.cs b/ShiftOS.Frontend/GUI/TextControl.cs
index 06d8233..c8eb56b 100644
--- a/ShiftOS.Frontend/GUI/TextControl.cs
+++ b/ShiftOS.Frontend/GUI/TextControl.cs
@@ -13,6 +13,30 @@ namespace ShiftOS.Frontend.GUI
         private TextAlign _textAlign = TextAlign.TopLeft;
         private Font _font = new Font("Tahoma", 9f);
 
+        public string Text
+        {
+            get { return _text; }
+            set { _text = value; }
+        }
+
+        public Font Font
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return _font;
+            }
+            set
+            {
+                _font = value;
+            }
+        }
+
+        public TextAlign TextAlign
+        {
+            get { return _textAlign; }
+            set { _textAlign = value; }
+        }
+
         public override void Paint(Graphics gfx)
         {
             var sMeasure = gfx.MeasureString(_text, _font);
diff --git a/ShiftOS.Frontend/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs b/ShiftOS.Frontend/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3bb6d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ShiftOS.Frontend/Properties/Resources.Designer.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// <auto-generated>
+//     This code was generated by a tool.
+//     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.42000
+//
+//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
+//     the code is regenerated.
+// </auto-generated>
+//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+namespace ShiftOS.Frontend.Properties {
+    using System;
+    
+    
+    /// <summary>
+    ///   A strongly-typed resource class, for looking up localized strings, etc.
+    /// </summary>
+    // This class was auto-generated by the StronglyTypedResourceBuilder
+    // class via a tool like ResGen or Visual Studio.
+    // To add or remove a member, edit your .ResX file then rerun ResGen
+    // with the /str option, or rebuild your VS project.
+    [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.Resources.Tools.StronglyTypedResourceBuilder", "4.0.0.0")]
+    [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
+    [global::System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]
+    internal class Resources {
+        
+        private static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager resourceMan;
+        
+        private static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo resourceCulture;
+        
+        [global::System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Performance", "CA1811:AvoidUncalledPrivateCode")]
+        internal Resources() {
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Returns the cached ResourceManager instance used by this class.
+        /// </summary>
+        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
+        internal static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager ResourceManager {
+            get {
+                if (object.ReferenceEquals(resourceMan, null)) {
+                    global::System.Resources.ResourceManager temp = new global::System.Resources.ResourceManager("ShiftOS.Frontend.Properties.Resources", typeof(Resources).Assembly);
+                    resourceMan = temp;
+                }
+                return resourceMan;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Overrides the current thread's CurrentUICulture property for all
+        ///   resource lookups using this strongly typed resource class.
+        /// </summary>
+        [global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(global::System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
+        internal static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo Culture {
+            get {
+                return resourceCulture;
+            }
+            set {
+                resourceCulture = value;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        ///   Looks up a localized resource of type System.Drawing.Bitmap.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static System.Drawing.Bitmap cursor_9x_pointer {
+            get {
+                object obj = ResourceManager.GetObject("cursor_9x_pointer", resourceCulture);
+                return ((System.Drawing.Bitmap)(obj));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ShiftOS.Frontend/Properties/Resources.resx b/ShiftOS.Frontend/Properties/Resources.resx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9510e93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ShiftOS.Frontend/Properties/Resources.resx
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<root>
+  <!-- 
+    Microsoft ResX Schema 
+    
+    Version 2.0
+    
+    The primary goals of this format is to allow a simple XML format 
+    that is mostly human readable. The generation and parsing of the 
+    various data types are done through the TypeConverter classes 
+    associated with the data types.
+    
+    Example:
+    
+    ... ado.net/XML headers & schema ...
+    <resheader name="resmimetype">text/microsoft-resx</resheader>
+    <resheader name="version">2.0</resheader>
+    <resheader name="reader">System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <resheader name="writer">System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, ...</resheader>
+    <data name="Name1"><value>this is my long string</value><comment>this is a comment</comment></data>
+    <data name="Color1" type="System.Drawing.Color, System.Drawing">Blue</data>
+    <data name="Bitmap1" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded serialized .NET Framework object]</value>
+    </data>
+    <data name="Icon1" type="System.Drawing.Icon, System.Drawing" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64">
+        <value>[base64 mime encoded string representing a byte array form of the .NET Framework object]</value>
+        <comment>This is a comment</comment>
+    </data>
+                
+    There are any number of "resheader" rows that contain simple 
+    name/value pairs.
+    
+    Each data row contains a name, and value. The row also contains a 
+    type or mimetype. Type corresponds to a .NET class that support 
+    text/value conversion through the TypeConverter architecture. 
+    Classes that don't support this are serialized and stored with the 
+    mimetype set.
+    
+    The mimetype is used for serialized objects, and tells the 
+    ResXResourceReader how to depersist the object. This is currently not 
+    extensible. For a given mimetype the value must be set accordingly:
+    
+    Note - application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64 is the format 
+    that the ResXResourceWriter will generate, however the reader can 
+    read any of the formats listed below.
+    
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.binary.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+    
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.soap.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized with 
+            : System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+
+    mimetype: application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64
+    value   : The object must be serialized into a byte array 
+            : using a System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
+            : and then encoded with base64 encoding.
+    -->
+  <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
+    <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" />
+    <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
+      <xsd:complexType>
+        <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
+          <xsd:element name="metadata">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" use="required" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="assembly">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:attribute name="alias" type="xsd:string" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="data">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+                <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="3" />
+              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="4" />
+              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+          <xsd:element name="resheader">
+            <xsd:complexType>
+              <xsd:sequence>
+                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
+              </xsd:sequence>
+              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
+            </xsd:complexType>
+          </xsd:element>
+        </xsd:choice>
+      </xsd:complexType>
+    </xsd:element>
+  </xsd:schema>
+  <resheader name="resmimetype">
+    <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="version">
+    <value>2.0</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="reader">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <resheader name="writer">
+    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
+  </resheader>
+  <assembly alias="System.Windows.Forms" name="System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
+  <data name="cursor_9x_pointer" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
+    <value>..\Resources\cursor_9x_pointer.png;System.Drawing.Bitmap, System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
+  </data>
+</root>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ShiftOS.Frontend/Resources/cursor_9x_pointer.png b/ShiftOS.Frontend/Resources/cursor_9x_pointer.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff48150
Binary files /dev/null and b/ShiftOS.Frontend/Resources/cursor_9x_pointer.png differ
diff --git a/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.Frontend.csproj b/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.Frontend.csproj
index 672024b..48748a9 100644
--- a/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.Frontend.csproj
+++ b/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.Frontend.csproj
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
     <Compile Include="GraphicsSubsystem\UIManager.cs" />
     <Compile Include="GUI\Control.cs" />
     <Compile Include="GUI\TextControl.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Properties\Resources.Designer.cs">
+      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>
+      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>
+      <DependentUpon>Resources.resx</DependentUpon>
+    </Compile>
     <Compile Include="ShiftOS.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Program.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
@@ -62,6 +67,10 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <EmbeddedResource Include="Icon.ico" />
     <EmbeddedResource Include="Icon.bmp" />
+    <EmbeddedResource Include="Properties\Resources.resx">
+      <Generator>ResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
+      <LastGenOutput>Resources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
+    </EmbeddedResource>
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <MonoGameContentReference Include="Content\Content.mgcb" />
@@ -121,7 +130,9 @@
       <Name>ShiftOS.Engine</Name>
     </ProjectReference>
   </ItemGroup>
-  <ItemGroup />
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <None Include="Resources\cursor_9x_pointer.png" />
+  </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MonoGame\v3.0\MonoGame.Content.Builder.targets" />
   <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it. 
diff --git a/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.cs b/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.cs
index 90ebb4b..f50c7d9 100644
--- a/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.cs
+++ b/ShiftOS.Frontend/ShiftOS.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
+using System;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
 using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
 using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;
 using ShiftOS.Frontend.GraphicsSubsystem;
@@ -54,6 +56,11 @@ namespace ShiftOS.Frontend
             textControl.Height = 480;
             UIManager.AddTopLevel(textControl);
 
+            UIManager.AddTopLevel(framerate);
+            framerate.Width = 640;
+            framerate.Height = 480;
+            framerate.TextAlign = GUI.TextAlign.BottomRight;
+            
 
             base.Initialize();
 
@@ -92,10 +99,16 @@ namespace ShiftOS.Frontend
 
             //Now let's process it.
             UIManager.ProcessMouseState(mouseState);
-            
+
+            //set framerate
+            framerate.Text = "ShiftOS 1.0 Beta 4\r\nCopyright (c) 2017 ShiftOS\r\nFPS: " + (1 / gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds);
+
+
             base.Update(gameTime);
         }
 
+        private GUI.TextControl framerate = new GUI.TextControl();
+
         /// <summary>
         /// This is called when the game should draw itself.
         /// </summary>
@@ -110,6 +123,21 @@ namespace ShiftOS.Frontend
             //The desktop is drawn, now we can draw the UI.
             UIManager.DrawControls(graphics, spriteBatch);
 
+            //Draw a mouse cursor
+
+
+            var bmp = Properties.Resources.cursor_9x_pointer;
+            var data = bmp.LockBits(new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, bmp.Width, bmp.Height), System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageLockMode.ReadOnly, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
+            byte[] rgb = new byte[Math.Abs(data.Stride) * data.Height];
+            Marshal.Copy(data.Scan0, rgb, 0, rgb.Length);
+            bmp.UnlockBits(data);
+            var mousepos = Mouse.GetState(this.Window).Position;
+            var tex2 = new Texture2D(graphics, bmp.Width, bmp.Height);
+            tex2.SetData<byte>(rgb);
+            spriteBatch.Draw(tex2, new Rectangle(mousepos.X, mousepos.Y, bmp.Width, bmp.Height), Color.White);
+
+
+
             spriteBatch.End();
             base.Draw(gameTime);
         }