>>803272Messed up in safe mode too? That would imply it's some sort of driver or device issue, but I don't think the popup would've caused something like that. Do you happen to have another mouse on hand or one that you could borrow in order to see if that's the issue?
>kinda wish I had a spare flash driveYou could move the disk image of Windows you have on that USB onto that external you mentioned if you wanted to try, but if the hardware in your laptop has compatibility issues I suppose that'd still have issues. Wish I could be of more help (thank you for the comic though, it was amusing). Hopefully someone else will wander into the thread to assist.
