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At frequent intervals, my computer mouse "freezes".
In other words, it will not operate. I find if I wiggle it in circles for a while the little arrow comes back and I am away again.
This seems to happen both online and while using Excell.
Does any one recognise the problem? It has happened twice while typing this. (I have tried tempting it with cheese) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Regards Briani
 
I have found that a gas torch applied to the tail seems to wake them up /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

seriously, I have replaced all my mice with the optical ones and find them to be MUCH better.
 
Do you have another item connected that may be interfering with the Interrupt ? This can happen if items are USB and daisy-chained etc.

Or

it can be that you have serious re-calc goiung on at times / lack of virtual memory to page to ... so actions freeze as the pc pages bits in / out of memory and occupies processor ....

A good medecine for the paging can be FreeRamXP ... which actively keeps ram free to reduce virtual paging etc.

There are many other reasons - but above are common.
 
Agree entirely about optical mice. If the pointer disapears it probably means that Windows has found something more important to do and you will have to wait. That's about as technical as I get with Windows.
 
Sell it.

My daughter has a snake and has to buy frozen rodents to feed it. They are expensive. (She sometimes stores them in Mother-in-Law's freezer, but that's another story).

Alternatively you can hire someone to keep an eye on the mouse. Download here
 
I too replaced my expensive ball mouse with an optical version (AU$ 10) which never gets bunged up with gunk from the mouse mat (have you taken out the ball and scraped the crud off the rollers?). It's a bit gaudy with a glowing blue wheel and a red light underneath but does the job perfectly.
 
Don't think defrag will do a lot for this particular problem. You could do a bit of self-diagnosis to see if it really is the PC getting too busy, depending on your operating system. This can be done on XP Pro and NT4 but not on 95 or 98, I don't know about others - XP Home, ME etc.

Press crtl-alt-del to bring up the Task Manager. If there is a tab labelled 'Performance', click it. You will see a graph of CPU Usage. If this jumps up to 100% you are running out of processor power. To see it in action, try dragging a window around the screen and the graph will rocket. If the graph is sitting down below 20% you don't have a problem there.
 
The optical ones are rubbish if you play first person shootem up games....

Prolly doesn't affect you, but just thought I would mention it...
 
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