Brush Cursor changing to Crosshair

2017.  All your ansers are back there.  before they stared trying to make this Suite for "everybody".  It will get so much worse dude.

Yet antoher problem that has no business even being on my mind.  My brush, Erasor tool / aANYny tool reverts back to the cross hairs, and its nothing to do with the CAPS LOCK being on or off, or my laptop being open or clsoed with screen sharing.  I am not reisntalling PS, whih seems to be the asnwer to ALL the problems int his forum.  I dont see any Prefs for this becasue I've never had to go hunting for something so stupid simple that has never and should never be an issue.  What is the deal? 

ANY kind of problem with tools are CRITICA, and shoudl be escaleted to the highest levl of cocnern fo ryoru UI team.  Can tsee your TOOL HEAD?  Thats crazy.  That sliek a ghosit trying to change a lightbulb.  ive said it before adn Ill say it again: Photoshop and all he Creative Suite apps worked like a dream 15 years ago.  You guys have done nothing but manifest a galaxy of bugs, all for your new magical, lazy tools like person-delete with the emagic band-aid or whatever dont work at all.  Next youll be selling AI and it wont work.  Just simplify simplify simplify.  All of us real designers in the world know this.  Nobody cares abotu feature-rich products.  We want trust and loyalty.  I have no faith in CC and Ive never been paying more.  Every single time I hit save my sphincter tightens up for a major crash, and I have so many projets open..itsd stright up traumatic.  Dammit Adobe, what happaned to you?  Is this an interal culutre thing, or ar eyour engineers jsut trying to keep busy?    Also: have the minimum respect for us - get spell check in your forum.  

My issue was that I have 2 keyboards and one had the caps lock on. Silly, and I spent lots of time trying to figure it out!

THANK YOU TJSearl! The caps lock on my laptop was on! Such a silly thing was costing me so much time trying to figure it out. I appreciate your solution!!

Thank-you!

This is exactly what was happening to me.

I was going crazy.

@TJSearl THANK YOU. I've been absolutley losing my mind, what a simple fix. Thank you!

THANK YOU, TJ!!! I was pulling what litle remains of my hair when I saw your post. Looked over at the Macbook, and, holy cow (as we say in WI) there was that tiny little green light blazing away. Walk of Fame star for you, my friend!

Thank you, solved it for me!!! Adobe, you really should get this one fixed!!

oh my gosh! THANK YOU! This is EXACTLY what my issue was...I have toggled everything on and off, restarted, reset, and then finally found your answer! THANK YOU for updating this thread. 🙂 Stay well!