Mouse still irratic

M

~mike~

Further to my post a few days ago (Service Pack 2 screws mouse accuracy), I
am still having problems with my mouse and I'm convinced that it has
something to do with SP2.

My mouse (Intellimouse Explorer) isn't as accurate as it was pre-SP2,
especially top-left to lower-right diagonal movement. I reinstalled the
latest Intellipoint drivers, but this had no effect. I even tried another
mouse, which works perfectly on another PC but suffers the same "fault" on
mine. One thing I have notices is 'pointer creep'. Every now and then, if
I take my hand of the mouse and do not touch it, the pointer starts to
slowly move diagonally up and to the to left of the screen (the opposite
direction to the inaccurate top-left to lower-right diagonal movement).

Does any of this give a clue to anyone what the problem might be?
 
S

Sharon F

My mouse (Intellimouse Explorer) isn't as accurate as it was pre-SP2,
especially top-left to lower-right diagonal movement.

Adjusting orientation (in Control Panel> Mouse> Activities) might help with
this part of the problem.
 
R

Ray

My mouse problem began with erratic movement and occasionally it would freeze
resulting in having to reboot. The freeze began occuring at shorter times
after booting up until it finally froze as soon as the desktop opened.
After several appeals to this and other newsgroups I followed all the
suggestions with no help.
Searched for new drivers and found out that I had the latest.
I went to MS Knowledge Base, saw my problem described exactly. Printed off 3
pages of items to delete from the registry, none of which were included in my
registry.

I told a nerd friend my problem and his immediate response was, "Are you using
a Microsoft PS/2?"
I said I was. His immediate response was, "Get a new mouse." That was the
best advice I had from anyone. Got an optical mouse for under $20, installed
it and all my problems are over. This was after a week of fooling around with
searches for answers and useless advice.

Get a new mouse. A real cheap fix.


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Ray
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