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My mouse suddenly stopped working. How do I fix the problem?

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my mouse suddenly stopped working. How do I fix the problem?

I installed the Windows 10 beta from Window 7 a few days ago. I installed all the recent updates. Everything was working fine but then yesterday, I watched something on YouTube for about an hour and at that point the mouse became unresponsive. I've tried everything I can think of but nothing works. I've shut down, re-booted, gone into the bios but with no success. Windows 10 will open but the mouse remains unresponsive. I even plugged-in a brand new mouse but that hasn't helped at all.

I have another hard drive with Windows 8.1 from my other PC that has a defective motherboard and out of frustration, I installed the drive from that PC on this one. It works but sometimes I have to re-boot my PC a few times on start-up and then if I leave a browser open for a while without activity, the browser becomes unresponsive and although the mouse cursor works, it is not able to do anything.

Any ideas?
 

RumoredNow

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Re: my mouse suddenly stopped working. How do I fix the problem?

Is there any set of drivers you can try from the mouse manufacturer's website?

Go to device manager and uninstall the drivers and try and reinstall manually.
 

Roland Schlangen

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Re: my mouse suddenly stopped working. How do I fix the problem?

Did you try another USB port? Perhaps the one your mouse is connected to can be broken.
Is it a wireless mouse? Than the radio can be broken.
 

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