Pressing this key alone is unlikely to work, although it has been known to on certain devices. Many will have icons so again look for one that could be a trackpad – typically F7, but we’ve also seen laptops that use F5 and F9.
If not, check your row of function keys at the top of the keyboard. Press it and see if the cursor starts moving again. The first thing to do is check for any button on your keyboard which has an icon that looks like a touchpad with a line through it.
Look for a Touchpad switch on the keyboard In this article, we'll run through these three potential solutions. Most laptops let you do this in some way, whether it's using a dedicated button, key combination or through the BIOS. You'll instead need to find a way of re-enabling the trackpad, which is annoyingly easy to disable unintentionally. This is one issue where the classic 'turn it off and on again' isn't likely to help. Having a touchscreen device might help the situation, but avoiding cursor-based navigation is often far from intuitive.
Unless you have an external mouse on hand, it restricts navigating around your PC to keyboard shortcuts. The cursor and the PC have gone hand in hand for decades, so when the former stops working it can be incredibly frustrating.
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