cursor changes - hard to use

Hi,
Suddenly, the crosshair cursor decided to change from the standard, easy to use:



to a new one. This only changes when using parallel lines and modify tools.



(hope the pics come out - all I've got here is a path).

Just in case, the new one is a small grey cross and fuzzy that does not snap onto anything.
The old one, an orange dot-line cross that spanned the screen and snapped to entities.

When using parallel lines, the new parallel line does not show up, either side of the original so I have to draw it.

I haven't changed any settings and still working on the same file.
Using Windows 10.

Help please.

That cursor is normal for some tools, it doesn't need to snap because it's only to select an entity. Depending on which parallel tool you might have to close the selection (if several entities possible) with Enter. You also might have to set the parallel's distance in the tool options bar, maybe it's set to 0.