Mouse stopped working

A couple of days ago, first thing in the morning our wireless mouse stopped working.  Almost like the battery was dead.  We have Windows Vista,I tried the system restore but that failed due to an "unspecified error" (!?!)  I looked at the information in control panel and noticed that I didn't recognize the name or manufacturer that our computer thought our mouse was.  I had to find a magnifying to verify that it was incorrect, found the model number, and then downloaded the correct drivers.  After that everything was fine. 

 

How is it that this happened? 

 

JBD

Peanut gallery;

Might want to be sure that the other end of the mouse [plugged into the USB port] is seated correctly and that the ports are alive and well.

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A couple of days ago, first thing in the morning our wireless mouse stopped working.  Almost like the battery was dead.  We have Windows Vista,I tried the system restore but that failed due to an "unspecified error" (!?!)  I looked at the information in control panel and noticed that I didn't recognize the name or manufacturer that our computer thought our mouse was.  I had to find a magnifying to verify that it was incorrect, found the model number, and then downloaded the correct drivers.  After that everything was fine. 

 

How is it that this happened? 

 

JBD