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Many of these are new to me - so thank you. Anyone have a shortcut to "recovering" control of the cursor? I think my rollerball is starting to fail because every now and then I lose control of the cursor. It drops to the taskbar, a weird symbol appears and I can't get control back unless I turn the computer off at the power switch. Of course, I've always got 3 or 4 windows open doing stuff and sometimes I lose the work when I have to shut down. Any ideas welcomed.