What causes mice to freeze?

[Csutak40]

A few weeks ago my wireless mouse died. Changed the battery, didn't help. I
presumed it was the mouse, so I plugged in my old MS mouse. It actually worked
for about a second, than it too froze in the spot. I tried all sorts of things,
checked the device manager, etc. Never occurred to me to try a reboot.
Eventually, out of desperation, I did and problem fixed.

It happened again! This time I did reboot immediately and it fixed the problem
again. What would cause this to happen?

 

[Guest]

Most often, this is caused by a collision between the mouse, and some other
pointing device, like a mouse pad, or pen. If you have these devices, remove
them and the mouse from device manager, and restart to refind them, and
hopefully straighten out the collision.

 

[Csutak40]

Sorry to have taken this long to answer, I've been away. I don't have any other
pointing device connected at all.