Sat 11 Jul 2020
I’ve sent most of today dealing with a bad mouse, or so it appears. It started gradually, but I spent over 45 minutes last night getting Ray’s review posted, a job that should have taken half the time, and today the problem was even worse.
The mouse seemed to scroll OK, but whenever I tried to highlight a section of text, it seemed to go all over the place, jumping left when I wanted to go right, skipping over text, then deleting and pasting in the original, making a complete jumble of it.
The mouse I had been using was wireless, so after wasting too much time trying to find out what setting had gone wrong, I finally located the old mouse on a cord I used to use, and while there are some very small problems with it, highlighting is a breeze now, as opposed to what was driving me crazy with the newer one.
After the earlier adventures I’ve had this year, upgrading from Windows 7 to 10, then the fear of losing everything on this blog a few months back, I was hoping that the second half of the would be free of computer problems, but no, it was not to be.
I’ll be back with a real post tomorrow, fingers crossed!
July 12th, 2020 at 4:59 am
Mouses can be a real nasty problem, but I love the grammatical anarchy of writing “Mouses!”
July 12th, 2020 at 9:35 am
You’re right. Just seeing the word “mouses” in print is oddly liberating.
July 12th, 2020 at 12:07 pm
Wasn’t there a cartoon where the character used to say “I hate these meeces to pieces!”. Darn things can certainly get your blood pressure up.
July 12th, 2020 at 12:18 pm
July 12th, 2020 at 4:07 pm
Please don’t throw things in my general direction, but did you try replacing the batteries (if any)? We’ve got a couple of cordless mice with batteries and when they get close to end of charge the mice start to act very wonky.
July 12th, 2020 at 4:42 pm
I have that problem with my wireless mouse as well. Sometimes just removing the battery for a few seconds will fix things up. When that doesn’t work I pull the mouses receiver out of it USB slot, wait a few seconds and replace it. I assume that forces a reboot of the software and after that the mice works well again.
Personally I would love to retrograde to Windows 7 from 10. Then I wouldn’t have to worry about unexpected / unwanted upgrades closing all my programs unasked.
July 12th, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Good advice,guys. Thanks! It’s so obvious a cure that it actually makes sense. I’ll give changing the battery a try tomorrow. I hope I have one to replace it with. If not, maybe beb your suggestion of unplugging the battery and plugging it back in wildo the trick, at least temporarily.
I spent too much time trying to Google a solution online yesterday. All of the suggestions were along the lines of implementing something called ClickLock (I think), or adjusting the scrolling sped, and so on and so on. Not one of these so-called experts suggested changing the battery!
July 13th, 2020 at 4:50 pm
I have a backup mouse and keyboard. Equipment fails eventually so I try to be prepared. I just bought a new printer when my HP OfficeJet froze.
July 13th, 2020 at 4:57 pm
Nothing works forever, that’s for sure, George, and unless you’re prepared, Murphy’s Law takes over, and it breaks down at the worst possible time.