Mouse trouble

WillowTheWhisp · 09-05-2007, 17:08

I've got an optical mouse which is behaving oddly. If it was a mouse with a ball I would assume the ball was mucky or stuck up with fluff or something.

What is happening is that sometimes nothing is happening. When I move the mouse the cursor doesn't always move. It's as if it's stuck there. This is not good when doing the quiz as it refused to move to the check score thingy and so looked like I'd taken longer than I had.

Any ideas what I can do? (Don't say buy a new mouse!)

mthead · 09-05-2007, 17:20

We go through alot of optical mice.They dont cost so much now Willow,all different sizes etc at asda.Between£5 and £8.

WillowTheWhisp · 09-05-2007, 17:33

This is only new - it glows.

panther · 09-05-2007, 18:19

is it for ya laptop willow?
know someone who had one and it kept stopping but came back on when restarted the laptop, might be conflicting with something, that or its buggered!!

Margaret Pilkington · 09-05-2007, 19:03

Mine does that when the batteries are low.

WillowTheWhisp · 09-05-2007, 19:18

No, it's for the desktop. I've reverted back to my non glowing one for now.

Neil · 09-05-2007, 19:20

have you tried cleaning the window bit underneath the mouse. Do you use a mouse pad? If so is it dirty. Try using the mouse on a different surface and see if it works better then. I use mine straight on the desk and it works fine.

WillowTheWhisp · 09-05-2007, 19:25

I tried it directly on the desk but no difference and I did a bit of a dust of the mouse's bottom.

harwood red · 09-05-2007, 19:47

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I did a bit of a dust of the mouse's bottom.

Someone please explain why I fell about laughing at this???

Neil · 09-05-2007, 20:00

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Originally Posted by harwood red

Someone please explain why I fell about laughing at this???

Because you are a naughty girl.
I did not laugh at all, honest

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I did bang my head on the desk when I fell off the chair though

slinky · 09-05-2007, 22:11

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Originally Posted by harwood red

Someone please explain why I fell about laughing at this???

OMG I laughed.....I can just image willow and a mouses bottom......oh no Slinky stop it, stop it NOWWWWWWWWWWWW

This actually reminds me of something very funny. My mate bought a pc and she has a glass PC stand. She kept trying the optical mouse but nothing happened. So we borrowed another mouse off her neighbor...still nothing. In the end we thought it was the USB port that wasn't working so we swapped it.....still nothing. after a while of thinking what could be wrong, I picked a piece of card up and put the mouse on it and it worked perfect

the moral of the story is..........MOUSES DONT WORK ON GLASS

grannyclaret · 09-05-2007, 23:08

QUOTE WILLOW
I've got an optical mouse which is behaving oddly. If it was a mouse with a ball I would assume the ball was mucky or stuck up with fluff or something. QUOTE
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i was going to say get some rat poison,,,then i noticed the word optical.....

WillowTheWhisp · 10-05-2007, 07:31

We've got some rat poison in the shed but I somehow don't think it will help.

Ber999T · 10-05-2007, 07:36

I'm stuck with a mouse that doesn't need glasses (OPTICAL PROBLEMS) and happy with that, just have to de-fluff it every now and again.

davo69 · 10-05-2007, 07:39

optical mouse is that a new spirit ?