
Windows 8 introduced a new flat wait cursor.

It is possible, however, to change the appearance of the cursor into the original hourglass cursor. The wait cursor in Windows 7 was almost identical. Windows Vista introduced a new, animated wait cursor.

The older "hourglass cursor", used in Windows 9x, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.įrom the first version of Windows to Windows XP, it was represented by an hourglass.
