Damn optical mouse!

[Kyra231]

For some reason my optical mouse just is not working right. I've only had it for a few months, it is clean & has fresh batteries.

As I try to click on a link, it acts as if I were just mousing over it & whatever the link info is flashes real fast then disappears, sometimes it's taking me 3 or 4 tries to get a proper 'click' in.

Anyone have any ideas on this? After a few days it's pretty much starting to piss me off when I have to click repeatedly to get things to work. I also saw this in WoW today when trying to look at item's info or to get them to work if clicked on.

Bleh. Thanks in advance.

~K.

[fallenSaint]

Uninstall and make sure your using most up to date drivers and windows updates in case something is clashing.

Try another mouse see if your usb port has gone bonkers

Make sure the cable hasnt pulled out a bit if its wired.

[Gnomad]

Uninstall and make sure your using most up to date drivers and windows updates in case something is clashing.

Try another mouse see if your usb port has gone bonkers

Make sure the cable hasnt pulled out a bit if its wired.
alternately, uninstall whatever specialty drivers it came with and try it with normal mouse drivers

[Stanley Burrell]

For some reason my optical mouse just is not working right. I've only had it for a few months, it is clean & has fresh batteries.

As I try to click on a link, it acts as if I were just mousing over it & whatever the link info is flashes real fast then disappears, sometimes it's taking me 3 or 4 tries to get a proper 'click' in.

Anyone have any ideas on this? After a few days it's pretty much starting to piss me off when I have to click repeatedly to get things to work. I also saw this in WoW today when trying to look at item's info or to get them to work if clicked on.

Bleh. Thanks in advance.

~K.

Change the mouse batteries.

[fallenSaint]

Change the mouse batteries.

You ever get bored of your own antics?

[Stanley Burrell]

You ever get bored of your own antics?

It's not antics, apeshit on my boot: The scanning light won't die and leave people thinking their mouse is still responding to the USB plug-in. I was actually going to write a whole who/what/when/where/why in detail, but she needs to change the batteries like I did with my mouse in the identical scenario she described. I just don't have pedantic ass holes like yourself who need Walls of Text so they can skip the obvious everytime I know it's mouse battery changing-time and it rocks, because you suck. But aren't here sucking (P.S. You suck.) The same thing happened to me and other optical mouse owners I know, and, well, I'm actually correct -- I was shortening it down because I really don't feel like writing as much text as I just did (in response-form, however) about how to change batteries in an optical.

Edited to Add: To answer you -- And in threads where I'm actually using antics: No. I mean, :wtf:, fS, am I even supposed to answer that rhetoric?

In your defense, I guess people aren't smart enough to know how to replace an optical mouse when battery use gets low. Otherwise, you need to be one-one hundredth as amazingly awesome/not you as I am. And then be the shutting of much fuck uppedness. But yeah, you dumb.

[Stanley Burrell]

Read the above like it was coherent and don't make dumb one-liners that don't even piece together. It doesn't even make sense, like gold star lesbians using penis-shaped dildos.

^

Not bored of antic.

[fallenSaint]

You even bother reading the part that stated the batteries were "fresh" which I would assume means new.

[Stanley Burrell]

No, you're gay.

[Stanley Burrell]

You even bother reading the part that stated the batteries were "fresh" which I would assume means new.

You know how you mispell a two letter word and I don't?

No you don't.



You're still gay though.

Edited: Ahhh, you didn't mean to say "no" for the word "new" (I read it like a sensible human being and begot satire on your behalf, had you been intelligent.)

Well,

You're kinda wrong.

[Stanley Burrell]

Clean all the dust out, even though new batteries to me means the original Panasonics you had with the optical mouse package, Kyra. Clean your desk and use it on a wood surface. Clean the plastic lens. Make sure the slide cover doesn't slide in: Quick push; make it *click*.

If you actually put in new batteries, there's no difference, unless your mouse runs on a lemon with nickel and copper rods jammed into it.

Also, connect your USB closer to where the mouse is. Or a new one if you want to re-autoinstall drivers that make no difference.

[SolitareConfinement]

actually i had this issue with my wireless mouse/keyboard set...and the solver of it..believe it or not was my mouse pad...the type of pad i had it on, was a plastic or vinyl surface which ever, either way it was kind of shiny and able to reflect light...yes I'm aware the problem is that of clicking, but like i said i had the same problem, amongst a few others like the mouse wouldn't track very well on my screen like i was moving it, etc...well when i changed to a cloth type mouse pad...like a cheap assed pad from walmart, its worked perfect ever since

[Kyra231]

Yeah it's a clicking & dragging problem, if I try to drag icons or files it drops them mid drag :(

I did do the reinstall on all drivers, tried all 4 of my usb ports & since it is wireless I've switched the receiver part in various different areas to see if that might change it.

And yeah, the 'fresh' batteries are brand new, did that twice just out of frustration.

I'll try dismantling/cleaning it if a different surface doesn't help(thanks for the idea there, I have a spongy mousepad with the wrist pad on it).

What a pain in the ass, even the one I had a few years ago which I dropped in a bucket of water worked better than the way this one is currently.

~K.

[SolitareConfinement]

is your receiver near your monitor or the likes? or is it one of those ones that are tiny and hook into the usb without a cord? or does it plug into usb with a cord

[Kyra231]

It's corded & is pretty small, like the size of a 5 piece pack of stick gum on a little pedastal. I usually keep it within a foot of the mouse or less. I noticed today there were a few wear marks on the cord where it has fallen & gotten stuck in the track of my keyboards shelf that slides under the desk.

Might be the problem right there :( Not sure how I missed it before, going to buy a new mouse later since this one is just going to shit(nothing like spending too much time trying to delete emails because you can't get the mouse to click on the box to mark it for deletion).

Thanks again for all the help, good for future reference.

~K.