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My Mouse is Acting UP
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Posted by
love2sew (
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Thu, Sep 1, 11 at 22:46
| I have a wireless mouse by Microsoft that is 1 1/2 yrs old. It has started acting up and the batteries go dead really quick. I put in a new battery and when I am scrolling, it yerks and when I think I am clicking on what I want to see, it ends up either the next or a couple items away.
Has this thing just bit the dust or maybe just dirty? I have never cleaned it, so any tips would be good. I just thought I would check with you good people before I give Staples $25. Thanks
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RE: My Mouse is Acting UP
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| Unlike the older style ball mice, there isn't much to clean with an optical mouse. You could take a Q-tip and clean around the LED. It might just be that the mouse is failing...unfortunately. |
RE: My Mouse is Acting UP
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| Look under MS Mouse in your All Programs and see if something needs to be adjusted in the settings. My wireless mouse was jumping around too much when I was scrolling. So I set the scroll speed to the slowest setting and now it's okay. |
RE: My Mouse is Acting UP
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| Thanks, that is what mine is doing....the page keeps scrolling while I am trying to read it. I will check the settings. |
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| Does this happen all the time, even after re-booting the computer? |
RE: My Mouse is Acting UP
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| I recall having a mouse where if you clicked wheel (they also can function as a third button) it would turn on "auto scroll". Move the mouse to the top of the page and it scrolls up, to the bottom of the page scrolls down. |
RE: My Mouse is Acting UP
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| I set my mouse speed to the slowest and restarted my computer. It is working much better so hope it holds out until Santa comes! |
RE: My Mouse is Acting UP
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| Hope you have luck. I have had issues in the past with corrupted mouse drivers. Usually a reboot would fix it, but on occasion, I had to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them. |
RE: My Mouse is Acting UP
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I was just at big lots and they had a very nice selection of name brand wireless mice for under $10 both regular size and laptop size. I get a lot of electronics there, great brand names and very low prices.
I picked up 4 of the 55 in 1 multi card readers that read all of the new HC cards also that some of the older ones will not read. I keep them on hand to share with friends that need them. They were $6 each. Also picked up a few 6 in 1 charging cables, these are very handy for charging multiple devices from one usb plug those were $6 each too.
I have a few usb hubs I picked up for that price also.
Their price for any kind of cable beats any I have seen.
I bought 2 bluetooth headsets for our smartphones for $8 each and they work great, uniden brand. So before you go pay big bucks for a mouse check around! |
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