Can I respond to you again. I had the same issue again. Now with the KB5044384 update. What's going wrong? I can probably do the same trick again. But my guess is that there is a underlaying bigger problem.
I did sfc /scannow, and it did find some corrupted files. But it didn't had any effect. Maybe something is wrong with the new background update mechanism. The update installs with the mouse still working.