Two weeks ago, the mouse on one of my computers quit working. It is a USB mouse and I used a KVM switch – it’s a little gadget that allows me to share the monitor, keyboard and mouse with two or more computers. It wasn’t the switch – my keyboard still worked and both mouse, monitor and keyboard works on the other computer. If I plugged it into the USB slot it worked. Strange.
When things like these happen, one of the first places to look is the device manager. It didn’t give me any warnings but after a few reboots it started to give me a yellow warning that the mouse isn’t working properly – well dOh! Now what?
Uninstall the mouse – you heard me right. Uninstall the mouse, reboot the computer. Windows will always try to re-install it on reboot. Sure enough it did and I have my mouse back 
Next time your keyboard or mouse quits, try that as a first step.
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That’s a good tip, Lynette. I’m not geeky enough to understand why sometimes Windows “forgets” how to use something, but I do know that more often than not a simple uninstall and reinstall will fix the problem.