My Microsoft Intellimouse (optical) seems to have gone bad.
The mouse cursor just moves around the screen a little by itself.
I googled on this and found:
- a guy saying cleaning the mousepad and using a q-tip on the mouse sensor will fix it.
Surprisingly, it seems it did fore a couple minutes. That's all.
- Lots of talk about checking for spyware and changing drivers and reinstalling things.
The bottom line was a suggestion to boot in safe mode and see if the problem still happens.
I agree and did that. It wasn't easy to start in safe mode. Pressing f8, holding f8, wouldn't. Finally a hard power shutoff got it to do it.
And the problem still happens.
It's not the first time this has happened with this model of mouse.
My recollection is, I found the mouse is bad and replaced it.
I'm surprised I didn't see any of the threads I found suggest that.
Luckily, I have other mice I bought, next step, try another.
The mouse cursor just moves around the screen a little by itself.
I googled on this and found:
- a guy saying cleaning the mousepad and using a q-tip on the mouse sensor will fix it.
Surprisingly, it seems it did fore a couple minutes. That's all.
- Lots of talk about checking for spyware and changing drivers and reinstalling things.
The bottom line was a suggestion to boot in safe mode and see if the problem still happens.
I agree and did that. It wasn't easy to start in safe mode. Pressing f8, holding f8, wouldn't. Finally a hard power shutoff got it to do it.
And the problem still happens.
It's not the first time this has happened with this model of mouse.
My recollection is, I found the mouse is bad and replaced it.
I'm surprised I didn't see any of the threads I found suggest that.
Luckily, I have other mice I bought, next step, try another.
