
So, keep pressing tab until the dotted square comes to one of the tabs of the window. Basically, the tab key moves the selection to the next clickable object e.g. You will notice that your keyboard focus has been shifted to the first button in the tab. If, for some reason, your tab isn’t select, press the tab key from your keyboard once. Use your arrow keys to switch between the tabs (you will see a dotted square around the button/tab that is selected).


There are a lot of solutions for this problem and usually it will be solved within a short span of time. There are other scenarios where you might have disabled your mouse accidentally. But, sometimes the issue might be because your mouse device got disabled for some reason and this can also cause the pointer to lag or freeze. The driver might be updated to a newer version or it might be outdated. This might happen because of an issue in the driver. There are a couple of things that might cause the issue.

You can still navigate and use your Windows via your keyboard but it will be a really cumbersome task.

It can also happen to systems that are on sleep mode a lot. This can happen randomly but most of the times it happens after an upgrade or a Windows update. But, sometimes, the mouse pointer might disappear from your screen. There’s no doubt that using a mouse to navigate through Windows makes it really easy to use our computers.
