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Postby caroljoyce » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:33 am

My mouse has become uncontrollable. The little arrow wont go where I want it to go. It jumps about all over the screen.
You wouldn't believe just how hard it was to manouvre it onto here!!

Any ideas?
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Postby Shutterfrog » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:48 am

Is it a fancy one with a light under it or an older one?

If an older one, there is probably dirt inside on the rollers that needs cleaning. There would be a cover that twists off and a ball falls out. I use a cue-tip and rubbing alcohol to clean the rollers and also clean the ball.

oops, forgot to mention if it is a newer one, i have no idea what the problem might be. :sad:
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Postby mazzy » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:32 am

could it be the battery? - I think that happened with mine.
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Postby Maywalk » Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:43 am

It wants some cheese Carol. :mrgreen:

To be serious though I think I would get a new one.
We always have a spare just in case this happens because we have to wait for my son to come and undo ours because neither hubby and I can manage fiddling things now.

This reminded me of an incident the other night when hubby could not get his arrow to go where he wanted it to on his computer and I said quite innocently " I think your balls want a rub up."
We both fell about laughing because he said " At my b****y age you will be lucky to find them."
I couldn't see the screen on my computer with the tears of laughter rolling down my face.
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Postby caroljoyce » Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:20 am

It's an old type one with a ball underneath. The first thing I did was clean it but it made no difference. What worries me is if it's caused by a trojan! I've run my Norton... What else can I do?

When I am able to get to a computer shop I will buy myself one of those optical mouses. I've heard they're good... In the meantime I'll have to put up with this... it took me 5 mins just to access this page. Grrrrrrrr.
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Postby Old-n » Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:31 am

If you look inside the area where the ball goes you will see a number of roller / wheels these can get dirt in them.

Clean the surface of the rollers then get a pair of tweezers and pick out all the bits of rubbish mainly down the side.

I think that will cure it
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Postby caroljoyce » Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:57 am

I've already done that. It hasn't made any difference Old-n
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Postby Victors Mate » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:36 pm

Optical Mouse from Amazon from £3.44. and upwards.
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Postby dejavou » Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:43 pm

Has it got Parkinson's carol? :hide: seriously though, I think the only way to sort it is to buy a new one, that's what I had to do, but don't let it know what you are doing when you order one ... or it will judder even more :dunno:
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Postby Rowan » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:54 pm

Or it will start working again!!
Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.
Gaelic Proverb

Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
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Postby caroljoyce » Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:34 am

It's ok now, I gave it a second clean as Old-n advised ... I was more thorough this time.
Something as simple as that eh? :yahoo:
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Postby Shutterfrog » Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:10 am

hurrah!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby caroljoyce » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:36 am

Thanks Shutterfrog, that's what you advised too ... I just couldn't have done it thoroughly enough the first time.
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Postby Corrie » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:43 pm

If you are worried about trojans etc do you run malwarebytes often?
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Postby Old-n » Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:47 pm

If you used AVG 2011 freeware it now does Virus and trojans
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