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Accidentally deleted standard PS/2 mouse driver, want to restore it
I was playing a 3D shooter video game, when I noticed my mouse was behaving in an odd way like never before. If I moved it fast enough, suddenly the first person camera of my character (the cursor) would stop moving, and instead my system would fire a single mousewheel scrolldown. I don't know if it was the game being glitchy, but after noticing this behaviour I tried to clean the bottom of my mouse and press the mousewheel several times, it didn't fix anything. Instead it did the exact opposite of it; my mouse completely stopped moving on the screen. The lights indicating that the mouse is plugged in were still on, and if I moved the mouse the lights would become stronger indicating movement, but the pointer didn't move on the screen. I plugged it in and out several times, but to no avail. I had no idea what happened but I was sure it's not the problem with the mouse since it was working (the lights). (I had another mouse to try if it works but at this point I didn't. I'll mention that mouse later.). Eventually I went into the Device Manager, and under "Mice and other pointing devices" I right-clicked on "Standard PS/2 Mouse", then Properties, then under the Driver tab I clicked Uninstall for the reason I've read that my system would reinstall it after I reboot it. It didn't. And now I have no hope what to do, I have tried to somehow reinstall all drivers, I tried an other mouse too, didn't work, I tried to get back the driver in all the ways possible but it seems I can only get it back if I completely reinstall my Windows 7, which I don't want. On the picture below you can see how the "Mice and and other pointing devices" is completely missing now.
If you didn't read the whole text, the thing you have to know: I uninstalled my PS/2 mouse driver in the Device Manager under "Mouse and other pointing devices", and the latter can't be seen anymore on the Device Manager, nor the PS/2, as presented on the picture. I just want to restore/reset/get back/reinstall the driver, and maybe get another mouse that's going to work properly. Note that I do not want to reinstall my OS. Thanks in advance.