Any suggestions? I have a mouse that freezes in its tracks and thenthaws and becomes active again?

[trigonometry1972]

The OS says the mouse is OK.

 

[Not Even Me]

many times that is caused by some program using 100% of the CPU cycles, when
it is finished, the mouse works again.
if you have task manager open, watch to see which process is taking all the
CPU when the mouse 'FREEZES'

 

[MedRxMan]

Is the mouse wireless, if so google "wireless mouse freezes with Vista".

Ms has a fix

 

[trigonometry1972]

Hello Trigonometry,

First, check to make sure the lens is clean on the mouse.

The batteries in the mouse may be gettting low. You might replace them
with fresh ones as a test to see how it works afterwards.

You can also press the reset button on the wireless mouse receiver and
click on the small "connect" button on the bottom of the mouse to reset
the connection to see if that helps.

Do you have the latest drivers installed for the mouse?

Hope this helps,

Now for the rest of the story. For the wireless mouse, it was the
batteries. (Proof of brain rot or mad cow that this didn't dawn on
me.)
Also, apparently I need to turn off mouse to extend battery life when
not using the computer.
AND the other mouse with wire if hooked to the computer only
works during start up and it still stops. This wasn't always
true. So perhaps I am not ready for old folks home just yet.
As I only need one mouse, I'll be OK.
And this computer has been checked from stem to stern for
viruses and malware and it is clean. I have quite alot
of open source freeware from Source Forge on the machine so they
must be doing a decent checking their software.

Again Thanks

 

[trigonometry1972]

Your welcome Trigonometry, and thank you for posting back with your
results and solution.

Shawn

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Well, it seems the computer is indeed infected with
something that disables the mouse in standard mouse.
It took a couple of weeks but both computer mice
quite working. The standard wired mouse only
works in Safe Mode and the wireless is completely
down.


It seems to me the best way to fix this is to
buy the Vista disks and remount the OS. And
take the hit on the OEM distribution of MS OS
currently on the system. I am so ticked I've
considered getting a Mac but they are way over
priced plus I use special software that only works on
an MS OS. The Tech's 've hired are so incompetent
that buying another cheap 400 dollar computer
may be nearly costly effective.....ArrG...weep..
sigh...

What do I need to know to remount the Vista
OS on the computer? How hard is it to get
the needed drivers? The MS Vista OS cost 120
dollars at Costco. I'd like to do this myself.

Trig

 

[Richard Urban]

I have really got to ask this question of you!

Why would you even begin to recommend reinstalling the operating system for
a mouse driver problem?

It seems that all you really want to do is send people to your web site -
for anything and everything.

If you recommend reinstalling the O/S for a problem such as this - it is
shameful on your part.

If your web site is good, people will find it without your constant
advertizing of it.