>>>I finally figured out why, under NT, I am unable to save a user's current CUR mousepointer, substitute my own for a control, and return the user's standard mousepointer, using API functions. NT, apparently *DOES NOT USE* .CURs. On my test machine, there are no CURs found in a complete drive search, though normal mouse pointers are in effect. ?? Is this normal? I have only one NT machine to work with, so I cannot compare with other NT machines easily. Can someone advise?
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>>Bruce,
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>>I don't know if this is much help, but Win2K supports the function LoadCursorFromFile() for both .CUR and .ANI files.
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>That will help eventually...but we won't be going to Win2K for at least a year, probably. Early testing has uncovered many Win2K incompatiblities (we're still having some NT4 problems, in fact, like this one of mine, for example)...
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>Alex & George - so I see what my problem is, the cursors are stored in a DLL, so the functions I need to store/restore a mousepointer (LoadCursorFromFile & SetSystemCursor) - apparently will not work with the DLL. Anyone have any other ideas for accomplishing this task in NT?
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>What I need is something like GetSystemCursor, but no such thing exists...

Use LoadCursor(). You'll need to get the instance handle of the application (from GetClassLong() with the window handle and GCL_HMODULE -16).