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Asked: 2026-06-04T21:34:18+00:00

i change the system cursor with SetSystemCursor but when i try to reset the

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i change the system cursor with SetSystemCursor but when i try to reset the system cursor to nornal with DestroyCursor nothing happens !!

Any ideas ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    As documented, the SetSystemCursor() function already destroys the passed cursor so destroying it again isn’t going to have any effect.

    You’ll need to store a copy of the old cursor so you can restore it later:

    // Global Variables:
HCURSOR hOldCursor;
...
   hOldCursor = CopyCursor(LoadCursor(NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDC_ARROW)));
   HCURSOR hNewCursor = CopyCursor(LoadCursor(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDC_MYCURSOR)));
   SetSystemCursor(hNewCursor, OCR_NORMAL);

    And restore it like this:

    SetSystemCursor(hOldCursor, OCR_NORMAL);
DestroyCursor(hOldCursor);
hOldCursor = NULL;

    Note the considerable pain you cause when your program terminates without restoring the cursor. As experienced by me testing this code. Changing system cursors is quite unfriendly since it has a global effect on all other programs that run on the desktop.

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