What would make a wireless optical mouse go crazy?

[KitchenWitch]

just askin'.

[CanuckAmok]

1. I dunno... wireless optical cheese?

n/t

[KitchenWitch]

2. LMAO

:silly:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. What's happenng to it?

[KitchenWitch]

4. I will be moving it

like along the middle of the screen, all of a sudden the cursor will disappear, then reappear at the top.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Are there temperature changes going on of any great degree?

That can make it do funny things.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Would my ceiling fan do it?

Hmmmm

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. It could. Has it happened before?

[KitchenWitch]

11. It just started

Maybe it is because it is no longer summer in Minnesota....I always have the ceiling fan going in here...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. That can happen. But update the drivers anyway.

[KitchenWitch]

15. Will do!

I never thought temperature changes would affect it...

I know that wireless phones, cordless phones and remote controls can.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I have no idea why it would go crazy , my dear KW......

And you are still UP! My god...making up for the night when you disappeared so damn early.....

Good to see you!


:loveya: :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

9. Actually I woke up a little bit ago

Most nights I only sleep for a couple of hours at a time...

:hug:

How was your meeting?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Ah, my meeting was great.....

If you'd like complete details, please proceed to the Nighthawk thread......

I told enigmatic all about it....and I don't feel like re-writing it!

If you don't mind, that is.......:loveya: :hug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. A few things to check...

Are the batteries low?
Have you changed what you mouse on?
Is the mouse losing sight of the base-station?
Is it just the scroll wheel acting funky? (are web pages jumping around?)


Re-install the drivers.. (I don't really know. Just tossing out a few things to check) Maybe you could see if a wired mouse is doing the same.

[WCGreen]

12. My o[tical mouse just kind of wanders around the creen on its own...

[KitchenWitch]

14. As do your fingers on the keyboard!

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

17. Well fat fingers..... And All....

[jobycom]

23. I literally LOLed at that one! nt

[yowzayowzayowza]

18. Chk the sensor for an ...

errant hair er fuzz. Thatz usually the prob with mine; esp. cat hairs.

[KatyaR]

19. You may need new batteries.

My boss went over a month before he complained--changed the batteries, and everthing's good as new!

These things need to beep when the power's low.

[Deja Q]

20. A hungry wireless cat?

[patricia92243]

21. A cat scared it :)

[China_cat]

22. Do you have a tablet hooked up?

I was having the same problems and couldn't figure out what was happening until I found the pen laying on the work area of my tablet. Put it out of the way and no more junk.

[jobycom]

24. I had a Targus wireless mouse that kept fritzing out on me

I went through two warranty replacements before just trashing it altogether. It worked at first, but stopped after a couple of months. It was a miniature laptop mouse. I just figured it was a bad product.

[Ratty]

25. Had the same problem here

If I was playing games suddenly the screen would start spinning. Sometimes on web pages and stuff it would suddenly jump to the opposite edge of the page.

I did three things:
- Made sure the batteries were fresh
- Made sure the radio receiver thingie was closer to the mouse
- Made sure I used a pad that is specifically designed for optical mice

The latter one, the pad, I think was the ultimate cause of the problem. If your mouse came with a pad, use it. If not, go out and buy a mouse pad specifically designed for optical mice.

BTW, I hate my mouse. It's not sensitive enough and the batteries keep wearing out. I love that I don't get tangled in a cord anymore but all in all I think I'm going back to the corded, mouse-ball type, even though it kept getting gummed up with encrusted finger turds.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

26. Check the batteries...and do you have a cellphone?

My cellphone, if it's too close to my mouse, will trigger the left button click occasionally. It also makes this odd buzzing sound once in a while. (probably when the NSA is trying to track me)

[Throckmorton]

27. Campaign literature from the local Repug office.

Made my printer suicidal.