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So my mouse cursor vanished. Gone. Nowhere to be found. Now all I have is a keyboard to navigate with. On Windows 10. Not fun. I was cursing MS even though it was probably me doing something dumb. Yes, ok, it was me. I have no idea what I did but I did it.
Anyway, after quite a while of head scratching I decided to reinstall windows. I fired up Rufus, pointed it to an iso and hot start (I have another old machine which is still usable in an emergency and I'm pretty sure this qualified).
It was almost done when I thought, "System restore!" Never had to use it before so took a bit of fiddling with the keyboard to get it up and let it do it's thing.
And by golly, it did. Cursor back. Hurrah for MS, boo to me. 
ps this wasn't much of a rant more of a phew!
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I'm sitting here wondering why your mouse cursor disappeared? 
And hoping this isn't The Next Big Thing on Win10. 
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Perhaps something like disabling the mouse and using a touchscreeen, no matter wether you have one or not?
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CodeWraith wrote: disabling the mouse and using a touchscreeen, no matter wether you have one or not
Ah, yes, that's a good guess. Hadn't thought of that one. You're probably right.
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No idea. All the drivers were where they should have been. Restarted a couple of times, updated/re-installed the drivers (which isn't easy with only the keyboard!). Nada, zip, zero, nothing. The touchpad is gone and pulling the usb stick for the mouse/keyboard does nothing. Note that the USB keyboard worked fine.
My though to reinstall was more of an opportunity to clean house and then it struck me to try a system restore. Worked like a charm. Hurray for MS!
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My first thought was battery in the mouse has gone. My next thought was faaarrrkk he reinstalled Windows for a flat battery. And finally, bloody hell, reinstall/restore fixes flat batteries.
I really need to think beyond my horizon  .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Battery was only a few days old anyway and the touchpad wasn't working so not just the mouse at fault!
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Without even a BAdunk sound and saying the device is unrecognized?
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I have to assume you had restarted Windows, before concluding you had to reinstall it...? 
If so, and the problem was still present...you could also have tried to get into the mouse control panel applet and assign something else to the pointer. I've seen that fix a similar problem.
Or try to remote into the machine from another one - I've also seen the new session get a new pointer, while it wasn't visible on the local machine.
Of course now you won't be able to test any of these...but hopefully you'll have a few ideas before if it ever happens again...
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dandy72 wrote: I have to assume you had restarted Windows, before concluding you had to reinstall it...?
Your assumption is correct - restart fixes almost everything!
dandy72 wrote: If so, and the problem was still present...you could also have tried to get into the mouse control panel applet and assign something else to the pointer. I've seen that fix a similar problem.
Interesting - hadn't considered that.
dandy72 wrote: Or try to remote into the machine from another one - I've also seen the new session get a new pointer, while it wasn't visible on the local machine.
Also interesting.
dandy72 wrote: Of course now you won't be able to test any of these...but hopefully you'll have a few ideas before if it ever happens again...
Food for thought indeed. Thanks
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I have occasionally seen that problem (though I don't think ever in Win 10). The mouse is still connected and working but there is no mouse cursor. My fix is simply to open a command prompt in full screen and then close it again.
Phil
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Phil J Pearson wrote: My fix is simply to open a command prompt in full screen and then close it again.
Definitely did not try that - cool for next time. Hopefully, no next time but, of course, there usually is a next time! 
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Can Microbes Encourage Altruism? - Scientific American [^]
... for some reason my selfish genes were making me hear Annie Lenox singing [^] while I read this:
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
What to do ? My denial dance card is so fully booked people tell me I almost look Egyptian.
cheers, Bill
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Nah, it's just the Universe talking to you. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'd be very comfortable if the messengers from the universe were bacteria, that form of life that Stephen Jay Gould so often reminded us is the modal form of life on this planet !
If only I had seven stomachs to ruminate with.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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BillWoodruff wrote: seven stomachs to ruminate
Forsooth!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Perhaps there is no need of microbes to explain the evolution advantage of altruism under certain social context in which member relations are many to many. There are many examples in real life that "good, but not foolish members", which most likely are intelligent and have certain altruism quality, are treated better by (many) others and they end up getting more rewards. On the other hand, selfish "smart" members are treated the same by others for self protection and end up getting less. In the end, the group with more selfish members lose the competitive advantages in a larger social context ...
OK I haven't formulate a mathematical model for this "theory" to find the level of altruism needed to be regarded as "good" ...
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It makes sense; lots of chemistry that change mood in the body 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There's a lot of wisdom in sayings like "my gut tells me..."
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Everything old is new again....
I cannot disguise
All the stomach pains
And the walking of the canes
When you, do come out
And you whisper up to me
In your life of tragedy
But I cannot grow
Till you eat the last of me
Oh when will I be free
And you, a parasite
Just find another host
Just another fool to roast
Cause you
My tapeworm tells me what to do
You
My tapeworm tells me where to go
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes, it is a self-praise post...
Just realized that I've crossed the 2000 answers on QA...
While it is clearly not that much - there are others with tens of thousands - I still going to grab an other can of cold soda 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Good Going! I have seen some of your answers, and they are among the best.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Just realized that I've crossed the 2000 answers on QA...
I don't know how you and others do it. Every so often I wander into QA and pretty much leave mentally screaming. You guys are amazing!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Here - this will cheer you up. I pretended it worked for me.
I noticed much the same. Alas, the questions are posted, for the most part, in local time working hours. As such, the Euro's get first crack at them. They leave us behind the dregs.
Occasionally, an exception, but buy and large, all the good stuff's been taken.
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