On the macOS Utilities selection screen, use the arrow keys to highlight Install macOS, press the Tab button to highlight the Continue button, and press Enter.

Use the arrow keys (or Control+Option+Arrow up/down/right/left) to select your language, and then press Enter.

At the recovery welcome screen, press Command+F5 keys (or Command+Function+F5, if you’re on an Apple laptop) to enable VoiceOver’s accessibility features.

Boot your Mac to the Recovery Partition or to external boot media.

That requires additional steps, which I document below. The process of installing macOS or OS X only requires a few clicks of the mouse–unless you have to work from just the keyboard. ICloud Usage Policy (TechRepublic Premium) How to boost your iPhone’s battery chargeĬlean your Mac before you break down and buy a new one SEE: Systems downtime expense calculator (Tech Pro Research) Must-read Apple coverage I believed the OS’s subsystem files were corrupted, so I tried to reinstall macOS in an attempt to reload a fresh copy of the system to “clean up” any corrupt files that were preventing the mouse from displaying.

It suddenly stopped displaying the cursor, and neither a wireless nor a wired mouse resurrected the cursor. A friend recently experienced an issue with the trackpad on their MacBook Pro.

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