Trying old games remotely...how to recover without mouse!

Hello!

I had just downloaded an old Windows 98 game while connected remotely to my home PC via AnyDesk. I was tempted to launch it and see the intro and probably play the first level. While pressing buttons trying to pass the lengthy cinematics and start playing, the game hanged and left me without mouse control! I could do nothing with the mouse, only with the keyboard. Switching from AnyDesk to RustDesk or AnyView made no difference! Sending CTRL+ALT+DEL to open the Task Manager and terminating the game didn't work, because the game was full screen and anything else was in the background!

The solution: I pressed WIN+TAB to open Task Viewer, found the game thumbnail, highlighted it with the arrow keys and then I pressed the RIGHT-CLICK button on the keyboard to see a list of options. I then selected to move the game to another desktop. This worked! I could see Task Manager on the first desktop and using the keys highlight the game and press DEL to end task. Thanks God! I had some applications working at the background and I would not like to restart the PC, nor wait until they finish without access to it.

This reminded me of the good old "boss key" in MS-DOS games. When you pressed it, the screen displayed a spreadsheet, so your boss would see you are working and not fire you! A few games would let you resume playing by pressing the "boss key" again, but most would either let you restart all over again or quit to DOS. I remember in Larry III a message similar to "You pressed the Boss key, you are dead. You shouldn't play games at work." Busted! I won't do that again, at least not try to play that old game again...

PS: I noticed that when a game or application runs full screen on smaller resolution as the desktop (such as 640x480 or 800x600), all open windows move to the second screen, probably because they don't fit to the smaller size of the first screen. Is there any way to move them all back to the first screen when the application closes, or I have to drag them one-by-one?

If not using a Notebook/Laptop and a mouse action is necessary one might get one of those desktop keyboards that also include the touchpad or maybe an add-on touchpad.

My mouse works fine, but it was captured by the game and I could not use it anywhere else. The only way to gain control again was to terminate the game process which I could not do because the game was full screen and everything else including Task Manager was inaccessible in the background. I could only navigate with the keyboard, so the solution was to open Task Viewer, select the game and move it to a new desktop, so I can see and use the Task Manager. Nothing is wrong with my current mouse, it was just exclusively controlled by the game.