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INTELLIMOUSE EXPLORER IS A POS

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Phat3800

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Well, my Intellimouse Explorer is going back to the store tomorrow. I have had the worst luck w/this piece of crap. I've got a BRAND NEW Dell 8100 and the pointer absolutely goes CRAZY--ALL over the screen!! Maybe it has something to do w/Windows ME, but I haven't had any hardware problems yet--and this is a MICROSOFT product!! I've tried everything--downloaded new drivers, tried different colored surfaces (light and dark), and tried connecting the thing in both USB and PS/2 ports. I bought the thing b/c I play a lot of FPS games and I thought it might help me out. WRONG!! Back to my trusty cordless Logitech Mouseman Wheel--I don't know what I was thinking when I bought this thing... Sorry if I'm stressing....
 
I personally happen to like mine. But I can relate - it's frustrating when something doesn't work like it's supposed to.
 
Try exchaning it for another one. My Intellimouse Explorer rocks...its just the shizza! It's alot more steady then balled mice, so yours may be defective?
 
Optical mice have never been good for FPS games. They will twitch very often if you move the mouse around too quick. Go back to a balled mouse.

Russell "Mr.Bios" Sampson
 
I've been running WinME for over six months with my Explorer mouse. It's not the OS.

I'll bet you just have a defective unit.

And pm's right... it really sucks when something doesn't work like it's supposed to.
 
Hey, check to make sure there isn't a hair or piece of dust on the eye. The eye is sensitve and a small piece of something moving around on the eye will cause it to jump and skip around. I thought mine had sh!t the can on me until I noticed an eyelash hair on the lense
 
mrbios, that is not true at all. My intellimouse optical in combonation with my Ratpad is a excellent gaming setup. My accuracy trippled from a ball mouse. It is neither jerkey or unreliable. I for one will never go back to using ball mice.
 
If your still gonna try it, make sure you don't go crazy with the spee and acceleration settings either... i've found that theres a limit before optical mice start getting erratic...
 
I'm going to agree with what others have said, and assume you have a defective unit. After trying both the USB and PS/2 port I'm surprised you downloaded 'drivers' for a mouse. I haven't seen mouse drivers for years.

I'll agree with what Wingznut said, pm is right, it sucks when something you own doesn't work right.

dm
 
I loved the IM Explorer, but it was buggy in Quake 3 and the first one I got was one of those ones that the cord shorted on within 3 months! Now I have a Logitech Mouseman Wheel which I like almost as much but have a lot more faith in.
 
i actually get a slight stutter with my logitech mousman wheel. it is soo much better with MS drivers rather than logitechs drivers, and i also noticed that its even more accurate with the shadow effect on themouse turned off. still havent tried anything else, cause its been working good for now. it seems to stutter when i reach a form drop down list or when the cpu is doing something intensive. shouldnt be the cpu as im at a 1ghz tbird.


loosbrew
 
My logitech mouse went bad after a year. The cursor would move all over the place on it's own and would start clicking things when the mouse moved over it without me pressing anything. My gues is that's what's happening to you. It's defective. I have the Explorer now and it's awesome! I haven't had any problems since i bought it (4 months).
 
You said you tried light and dark surfaces, but were any of these actual mousepads? I personally think plastic mousepads improve the performance of optical mice a lot. When I first got my optical mouse I tried it out on my wooden desk and the wood patterns would make it do crazy things like leap all over the screen. I threw a mousepad on the desk and it worked perfectly.
 
divine: The Explorer works fine as a regular mouse without drivers, but you need them to enable the extra two buttons.

Personally my Explorer has never given me any problems at all, so I can't even begin to think where to start troubleshooting. The advice about dust on the eye makes a lot of sense, and returning the unit for another also sounds like good advice.

I don't know whether or not the Explorer is better in games than ball mice, but I've never had any problems with mine. It's not jerky and it's not twitchy. I've played plenty of UT on it and never had any problems. Of course, the same was true of my old Logitech mouse as well. About the only thing that I really like are the two extra buttons - I usually bind those to jump and crouch and it's very handy not having to poke around on the keyboard looking for them.
 
I like my optical...i had some problems with it goin around the screen like crazy because there was a shiny pic on the DELL mousepad...I think that the light was being reflected around like crazy by that shiny spot...i went out and bought a dull gray mouse pad and have no more problems with that.
 


<< divine: The Explorer works fine as a regular mouse without drivers, but you need them to enable the extra two buttons >>



I considered the CD that came with it to be 'software' moreso than drivers but I suppose in some inane way, it could be categorized either way. My point was, to get a mouse to WORK you don't need drivers anymore and haven't for years.

dm
 
True, you don't need the driver/software to get it to work. Whether it's software or a driver is a matter of semantics, although I will say that I consider any software that enables functionality of hardware to be a driver.
 
But I love mine, just like the majority of Intellimouse Explorer users.

You just happened to have bad luck and got a defective product. Or maybe there was something wrong with your computer.

That doesn't make the product itself a &quot;POS&quot;

I had a defective MSI K7T Pro2-A, but it got a very high rating. And I love mine too (the replacement).
 
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