My mouse is possesed. It keeps sticking to the right side of the screen and when we try to move it away, it always drifts back. We've tried everything short of reinstalling Windows XP. Our virus software doesn't find any bugs (it did, but said it repaired the file). I'm at a complete loss here. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas? This severly hampers my ability to work on Chatters, and nullifies any icon creation completly.
HELP!
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 Oct 20 2003, 9:34 am
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Oct 20 2003, 9:37 am
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Jnco904
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Would it be a problem if you accidentally moved your mouse while installing the driver?
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No, mice don't need to be calibrated like old joysticks.. that shouldn't affect it.
Try cleaning the mouse out really well, and uninstalling the mouse drivers then reinstalling them (yay for keyboard navigation). If that doesn't work, try a different mouse. It might be screwy. -AbyssDragon | |
We have two mouses, they go out intermitently, pretty sure its a break in the cord. When one goes out the other normally works, so we just switch back and forth.
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I just remembered I had this problem with one of my old mice, and I ended up getting a new one, if you can get a ride up here, I can give you a new one, and probably give you a few other things of mine that I don't need.
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Might wanna get a laser mouse, they are awsome and I've had mine for about 1 1/2 years. Most of mice usually break or the "ball" or w/e falls out.. {Just making a suggestion, unless you already have a laser mouse.}
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Nope, it's not the mouse. We think it's a virus, but we aren't able to find it again. We found it once, and I thought I killed it, but we think it may have moved. We found it a second time, and the program indicated that it repaired it, but the mouse is still screwy. Even after replcing the driver files manually, and even durring and after the reinstallation of XP, the mouse was screwy. The mouse pointer drifted back to the right even when no mouse was present. We're looking into this virus, Swind, that the antivirus software first detected.
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My dad has a laser mouse, and I use one at school, and I hate them. They randomly move to a corner of the screen quite often, for no apparent reason. This is really bad when your playing a game.
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thats your oppinion.. I've had one for quite a while, and i find that as long as you have a good mouse pad the laser mouse is extremely smooth and efficient.
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That's never happened to me. Occasionally the pointer will get the shakes for some unexplained reason, but nudging the mouse a bit solves that.
Optical wheel mice rule. =) | |
I'm glad that that's not happening only to me...
I've got Microsoft's "Blue" wireless optical wheel mouse, and it does that all the freaking time! Well, not constantly, but often enough... It really sucks when it happens in the middle of a click, and the mouse moves to the top right corner where the close button usually is for most windows... Clicks register on mouseup, so even if I click it down on something, as long as I let the button up when it jumps to the X, it closes the window... It really sucks... | |
Well, WIRELESS mice... =) They're nice in theory, but in practice they can be a bit dodgy. Most of them don't have good enough response times for high-speed gaming, either, also that's getting better.
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It helps to keep it clean. Look at the bottom. The chances are it has those little plastic strips up the back and front. Those get really dirty.
It also protects the surfrace of what ever your mouse is on from getting scratched. So there! =P | |
Also, they recommend that the surface you use your optical mouse on is somewhat textured and has variations in color...
After all, the laser can only detect movement by detecting the surface changing underneath it... If you use the mouse on a completely flat and smooth, solidly colored surface, then it won't work as well as if it were on something else... A mousepad just happens to work fine for this purpose... How convenient! | |
I dunno, my mouse doesn't work half as good on my desk as it does on the mouse pad.. but i gotta go family guy is on.
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It helps differentiate the surface. Me, I have a fake wood desk (okay, it is actually wood, but just chipboard and veneer), so I don't have too many problems; the grain provides enough difference for the optics to work nicely. On the other hand, someone with a pure grey desk will probably want a mousepad so their mouse works better.
Someone is actually selling $50 (Australian) mousepads that are specially made for optical mice. They're supposed to eliminate tracking problems altogether; useless for most of us, but almost a necessity if you're a pro gamer or something. =) | |