Hi Bruce! As I told you before, you can do what you want with my Sysinfo class. I have two methods there for playing with cursor shape: SetCursorshape and RestoreCursorShape. The first method does a saving of your current cursor (even if it's custom or user-defined) and the second does restoring this cursock back... Have a happy day Vladimir Shevchenko > default and are you using Vlad's code. My OS is WinNT, I don't think that > would matter, but . . .? > > Vlad's code, restoring from registry...we needed it specifically because we > couldn't capture and restore a custom cursor...you might check the win32api > functions with the win32api Help. Each function has a list of what OS they > are geared for...