Boot safe mode, head to the device manager and remove ALL the mice found there. Reboot and if the hardware is good, Windows will find and reinstall the mouse.
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The ps/2 optical mouse on my office computer quit working. Actually it quit a couple weeks ago but started back up and worked for maybe two weeks. The curser was in the middle of the screen and it would not move. I rebooted still no luck. Later that day it started working. well today it would not work again. I tried another mouse (ps/2) and an older one with the ball and then finally a usb mouse. NOne of them would work. I rebooted a ton of times with no effect. I rebooted with the mouse not attached and the weird thing is taht the pointer still remained in the middle of the screen. I tried to uninstall the mouse driver but not sure if it uninstalled as the pointer is still in the middle of the screen. I ran virus scan and found nothing. I don't want to get IT involved unless I have to because I have allot of end of the month things coming up and they are slow slow slow. Please help... Thanks

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