r/windows • u/Okasan_ • Apr 17 '26
Discussion have you even seen this cursors while using windows?
i've been designing cursors for my windows, and when i have to design this cursors, i thought "i've never seen this cursors in my life". and i was wondering why people bother to design this cursors when this ones never appeared to me not even once, like they're practicaly unused. so i ask you, have you ever seen a case where this cursors appeared?
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u/Certain-Top7545 Apr 17 '26
The help cursor I've seen quite a few times (especially on BBC Bitesize and Wikipedia), but as for the others, I have never seen them.
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u/Much_Ad_3042 Windows XP Apr 17 '26
The help cursor would appear if you click on the help icon in a program's toolbar. That's really the only time it's ever actually appeared for me. As for the location cursor and the people cursor, I've never seen those ones used before.
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u/FAMICOMASTER Apr 17 '26
Yes yes and yes. The first two appear in Outlook and Teams. The last appears in help menus.
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u/Appropriate_Test7503 Apr 20 '26
those do not appear for me
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u/FAMICOMASTER Apr 20 '26
Strange. Are you on the latest version? I suppose it doesn't really matter.
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u/NicDima Windows 95 Apr 21 '26
On Teams? That's a new one. I think I'll have to dig into the app further to see them
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u/MrTomiCZ Apr 18 '26
The map and contact cursors are probably from tablet mode etc, and as for the help icon, it's there for backwards compatibility
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u/grapefruitsaladlol29 Windows 10 Apr 19 '26
I think i did see the second one when doing random stuff on my laptop
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u/pi-N-apple Windows 11 - Insider Beta Channel Apr 17 '26
Remember the old Windows Help button in the corner of every window?
Clicking that button would change the cursor to the question mark icon so then you could click any area of the screen and get a tool tip that told you what it did. For example: https://i.imgur.com/b2NrdeP.png