I own the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard and mouse,
L5V-00001, and I have been using them for a year or so without any problems on Windows 7.
I have recently upgraded to Windows 10 and since then I have been facing strange problems with the mouse. While the mouse cursor moves fine, clicking on any window or icon does not do anything. Also places where the mouse cursor should change do no do that
any more when this problem happens. This seems to happen either after startup or after some time of normal use. I haven't figured exactly what triggers this problem but it happens pretty often to be annoying.
The strangest thing is that the temporary fix to this is that I do the following steps:
1. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del
2. Move the mouse a bit around and over the links.
3. After a second or so, the mouse comes back to normal and I could click on one of the links, such as 'Task Manager'
4. Windows switches back to normal, with the task manager window open, but I can click on everything else, close task manager and continue to work normally.
This happens on my old Samsung Series 9 NP900X4C laptop, but I recently got a brand new Lenovo T460s, and the behaviour is exactly the same. The only common thing between them is Windows 10. Both are updated with the latest drivers.
Is there a way to fix this annoying issue? I can't believe that Microsoft doesn't test its own high-end peripherals properly with its flagship operating system.