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

[Windows Central Question]

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]

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]

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.