Wireless Mouse Battery Warning

[Alex Meaden]

Every half hour or so, I get informed that I should change the batteries
in my mouse (Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0) as they are low.
However, the batteries are brand new, and the Mouse Control Panel shows
Battery Status - "Wireless mouse battery level: Good". I'm using the
latest IntelliMouse software. I didn't have this problem running under
Windows Server 2003 with the same IntelliMouse software, on the exact
same PC.

Ideas please? This is very annoying when I'm using the PC, and also when
not as it switches the monitor on out of power save mode, and won't let
it switch off again until I dismiss the warning.

Regards,

Alex.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Wireless, anything, have the biggest problems. Even when you are not using
them, they are still powered on, unless they have a power switch. So it can
very well be the fact the the batteries are drained of their power.

 

[Alex Meaden]

Wireless, anything, have the biggest problems. Even when you are not using
them, they are still powered on, unless they have a power switch. So it can
very well be the fact the the batteries are drained of their power.

The messages appear when the batteries are in a near-new condition, and
the Mouse Control Panel shows this as so. So the messages should *not*
appear!

Alex.