"Sticky" Mouse

[E. Barry Bruyea]

I've finished rebuilding my system without any problems (XP-2, 2gig
memory), except for the mouse. It is 'sticky', in that many times
when I go to move it, it momentarily sticks before moving and
occasionally will not move at all for about 30 seconds, especially
when a program is opening. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the mouse
twice, but still have the problem. It's a Microsoft USB Optical Wheel
Mouse (Hardwired) and is showing in Device manager twice, once in the
'Human Interface Devices" & in 'Mice & other pointing devices'. I
also have 'Mouse Pointers' installed from the 'Accessaries' option.
Also, in the 'Human Interface Device' listing, it is shown as a '3
button mouse'.
I'd appreciate any help with this aggravating problem.

(This is a revised post. It must have been too damn early in the
morning as I forgot to mention a couple of pertinent items, like it is
an Optical mouse & hardwired.)

 

[Elmo]

I've finished rebuilding my system without any problems (XP-2, 2gig
memory), except for the mouse. It is 'sticky', in that many times
when I go to move it, it momentarily sticks before moving and
occasionally will not move at all for about 30 seconds, especially
when a program is opening. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the mouse
twice, but still have the problem. It's a Microsoft USB Optical Wheel
Mouse (Hardwired) and is showing in Device manager twice, once in the
'Human Interface Devices" & in 'Mice & other pointing devices'. I
also have 'Mouse Pointers' installed from the 'Accessories' option.
Also, in the 'Human Interface Device' listing, it is shown as a '3
button mouse'.
I'd appreciate any help with this aggravating problem.

(This is a revised post. It must have been too damn early in the
morning as I forgot to mention a couple of pertinent items, like it is
an Optical mouse & hardwired.)

Other things to try:

- Place the mouse on a patterned, or porous surface, preferably one that
isn't shiny.

- Try lowering graphics hardware acceleration slide. You can lower
graphics hardware acceleration in Display Properties, Settings tab,
Advanced button, Troubleshooting tab. If this helps, you probably need
a different graphics card or drivers.

 

[E. Barry Bruyea]

Other things to try:

- Place the mouse on a patterned, or porous surface, preferably one that
isn't shiny.

- Try lowering graphics hardware acceleration slide. You can lower
graphics hardware acceleration in Display Properties, Settings tab,
Advanced button, Troubleshooting tab. If this helps, you probably need
a different graphics card or drivers.

Probably a good suggestion, except for one thing, I've got the same
card I had prior to installing new HD & doing clean re-install of Xp.
So, basically, nothing changed relative to the mouse..l.I think!

 

[R. McCarty]

Fairly common issue, especially if your USB controller/HUB that
the mouse is connected to is heavily loaded ( Power/Bandwidth ).
Most USB mice/receivers are USB1.1 and if you plug the receiver
into a different slot it may alleviate the problem. If not, sometimes
I actually have to add a PCI USB card to give USB devices with
high resource requirements their own dedicated controller/hub.
That being said, most USB mice are what's called "Composite USB"
devices and usually only draw around 98mA of the 500ma available.
It's also beneficial to use System Info and review the IRQ Mapping
on the PC. Sometimes USB controllers are shared with several
other devices on the PCI bus. However, you can't really manually
assign or re-assign IRQs - but it helps to know the level of sharing.

 

[E. Barry Bruyea]

Fairly common issue, especially if your USB controller/HUB that
the mouse is connected to is heavily loaded ( Power/Bandwidth ).
Most USB mice/receivers are USB1.1 and if you plug the receiver
into a different slot it may alleviate the problem. If not, sometimes
I actually have to add a PCI USB card to give USB devices with
high resource requirements their own dedicated controller/hub.
That being said, most USB mice are what's called "Composite USB"
devices and usually only draw around 98mA of the 500ma available.
It's also beneficial to use System Info and review the IRQ Mapping
on the PC. Sometimes USB controllers are shared with several
other devices on the PCI bus. However, you can't really manually
assign or re-assign IRQs - but it helps to know the level of sharing.

The problem is, there is nothing new on my system, so the load now is
no different than before I re-installed everything, but the issue
didn't present itself until after I'd completed the rebuild.

 

[Elmo]

The problem is, there is nothing new on my system, so the load now is
no different than before I re-installed everything, but the issue
didn't present itself until after I'd completed the rebuild.

If you reinstalled XP, you possibly reverted to older versions of some
drivers, or didn't install some at all. It could be a driver needed for
the motherboard.