Windows 10: Connecting USB flash drive causes wireless keyboard and mouse to freeze

2 week old HP All-In-One worked fine until today - connecting a USB flash drive or portable hard drive causes the HP wireless mouse and keyboard to stop working - unplug the flash drive and the mouse/keyboard works again... any ideas or suggestions ?

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USB Flash Drive Causes Mouse lagging/freezing

Is your mouse wireless ? If so, does the issue also occur if you use a wired mouse ?

In case you are using a wireless mouse, inserting flash drives might be causing some kind of interference with the mouse signal; if possible try using a USB extension cable to keep the mouse transmitter as far away from the PC as possible. The following links describe signal interference when using USB 3 hard drives or flash drives (see the pdf in the second link) :

USB 3.0 Hard Drives Can Cause Wi-Fi Interference The Mac Observer
USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices

Or, as nIGHTmAYOR said, it might be some other issue.

 

Wireless Mouse connects as a keyboard

Hi there.

I've tried doing all of these steps, and it still doesn't work. I can see the device in 'Connected devices' in 'Settings'. It is listed as 'Microsoft Nano Tranceiver' but has a keyboard icon next to it. the mouse is a Microsoft Mouse 1850. This also occurs
with other wireless mice I have tried, and they connect but all have the keyboard icon next to them.

Thanks,

Jordyn

 

Keyboard and Mouse freezing

Similar thing happened to m RAT 9, it had a corrupted profile in the firmware, caused everything to freeze every 10 seconds or so, so I replaced the mouse. It didn't cause my keyboard to stop working though.