My asus mouse freezes, gets stuck and wont move

My touch pad mouse on my asus laptop will only work in safe mode, help

Mine did that one several profiles, but not all of them. In my case, someone had swiped their finger across the top area above the keyboard where the lights for the hard drive, cap lock, etc. are shown. A few of the lights are actually 'switches' or 'buttons' even though they don't 'click'. Swipe over the touchpad to turn it on, and again to turn it off.

I thought my issue was hardware or software, but it turned out to be some users trying to clean the top of the keyboard area while it was booting up.