Windows XP hour glass cursor?

For an illustration, I need the Windows XP hour-glass cursor - with standard drop shadow - as a transparent image (PNG or whatever). Any idea?

I found a page with cursors, but the hour-glass one is missing:

http://telcontar.net/Misc/screeniecursors/

feklee

Posted 2010-05-03T09:11:26.327

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Answers

OK, I've added the hourglass image to the collection.

Note: The %windir%\Cursors directory is not a solution because it lacks all the standard cursors -- small white arrow, small white hourglass, D&D copy, D&D move etc.

Daniel Beardsmore

Posted 2010-05-03T09:11:26.327

Reputation: 56

The system cursors folder is in your windows directory;

C:\Windows\Cursors

You should be able to extract any frame from the image with a good image editting program. Gimp will do this for you, for instance.

RJFalconer

Posted 2010-05-03T09:11:26.327

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Unfortunately, the drop shadow is missing from the cursor images. I will edit my question accordingly. – feklee – 2010-05-03T09:39:16.343

2The drop shadow is added dynamically, so you will not find an icon file with it already in-place. You'll probably need to either keep taking screen-grabs (with a tool that includes the cursor in grabs) and hope to catch it at the right moment, or just use paint.net/GIMP/photoshop/what-ever to create the look manually. – David Spillett – 2010-05-03T10:33:52.483

I see. Edited the question accordingly. – feklee – 2010-05-03T13:58:49.207

For the record, I've been able to reproduce the drop shadow precisely in Adobe Photoshop 7 with the following parameters:

Colour: black
Blend mode: multiply
Opacity: 32%
Angle: 151–170°
Distance: 3 px
Spread: 0%
Size: 3 px
Contour: linear, non-antialiased

Daniel Beardsmore

Posted 2010-05-03T09:11:26.327

Reputation: 56