Hey folks, ever had trouble with mice?
Don't they just drive you mad, scurrying all over the page and not entering the screen when you expect them to - a total rejection of appearing in the expected place, and then of all things jumping out onto the very place where you had least expected to see them. Just jumping up and down and up and down, quivering and then disappearing altogether.
Outbreaks of this mouse virus have struck this house before. We tried the Dell mouse which came with the system but it quickly succumbed, then the Kensington mouse from my laptop which is fine on the laptop, and finally a truly fancy tiny pink and chrome mouse called Fifi which my son had picked up at an exhibition in Paris last year.
(By the way, did I ever tell you that my oldest son designs and builds enormous exhibition stands - some as much as 15 metres high, some shaped like burgers, or flying saucers, or even cheese - whatever the client wants - and then goes out to different countries as far flung as South Africa, or Argentina, and erects them. Later after the exhibition is over he takes them down again and comes home. Well the pink and chrome mouse, Fifi, was one of many freebees given away at such events, so we tried that one as well).
All mice seem to be infected with St Vitus' Dance. We cannot control them or keep them still on the screen. Has anyone else had such a problem with mice?
Any advice much welcomed.
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You don't say what sort of mouse you have (ball or optical, corded or cordless) but from the symptoms you describe I think it's unlikely to be something as simple as dirty balls anyway!
If you do have a ball mouse though, and haven't taken the ball out to clean it (but more importantly to remove the gunge from the inner spindles it operates) then that's obviously the first step.
If that's not relevant or doesn't make a difference, it's possibly a memory conflict within the system which might - I repeat, might - be cured by uninstalling and re-installing, or updating from the Web, the mouse driver. But I'm not recommending that course of action: I wouldn't want to steer you wrong. You'll find plenty of info on the various tech-head forums on the Web if you Google.
Another possibility if you're using wifi is a conflict of radio signals.
Of course I'm assuming that you have all the latest AV patches and have run regular anti-virus and anti-spyware scans? If not, why not?!
Best of luck with it. It's damned irritating isn't it - especially when it leaps to somewhere else just as you click the button.
'Do you want to addle your computer's memory irretrievably? Click Yes or No'.
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