My cursor is stuck as an arrow no matter what tool I use.

I have checked the caps lock and that does not do anything and I have restarted photoshop 3 times and nothing seems to work. Can somebody help?

What OS version?
Usually that's an indication of a video card driver bug, an OS bug (Windows cursor scaling doesn't work right), or some other utility grabbing control of the cursor (which depends on what sort of utilities you have installed).

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