Mouse trouble

WillowTheWhisp

WillowTheWhisp

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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!)
 
We go through alot of optical mice.They dont cost so much now Willow,all different sizes etc at asda.Between£5 and £8.:)
 
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!!
 
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.
 
harwood red said:
Someone please explain why I fell about laughing at this??? :confused: :p :D
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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 :D:D the moral of the story is..........MOUSES DONT WORK ON GLASS :o:D
 
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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.....:bingobang :mickey:
 
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.
 
I think my kids used to be heavy handed when I had a mouse with a ball and the balls were always getting pushed in somehow so they didn't work - hence the desire to go optical which I do find much more manoeuverable (sp?) under normal circumstances.
 
Can I ask a very dumb question? I'm going to anyway....Is an optical mouse the same thing as a wireless mouse or are they just related by marriage :)
 
No, wireless is as it says no wires.
Optical does not have a ball. It uses a light and sensor under the mouse that detects that the mouse is being moved and in which direction.
 
Well, i'm proper flummoxed.....my mouse has no ball (OK...don't laugh) and it has a light underneath......and it is wireless....but it isn't optical then???????
 
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