Annoying mouse - Minor but really aggravating issue!

if it's an optical mouse, try changing the surface. it could be because of bad tracking. it could also be because the mouse is sleeping to save power and takes a second to wake up. could be other things like drivers or settings too :)

the best work mouse I have ever owned is a logitech mx1000 (you can catch them on sale for around $40). it's wireless so you do have to charge it occassionally but it's a joy. lots of buttons and a laser (instead of LED) so it will track on almost anything.

I use a logitech g5 for gaming (expensive but I managed to snag mine for $10 on sale). Again, the laser makes for excellent tracking. It's wired (so no battery and no interference issues) but it also has less buttons than the mx1000.

Well, shoot. I went to Tiger Direct but vcouldn't find it.... is this similar?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1617457&CatId=0

it's a good mouse. there's occassionally a slight start-up delay if it's asleep when you first move it but it's not very noticable. the base also needs to be relatively line of site to the mouse -- there's a limit to how much desk you can send it through :)

Thanks for the speedy reply, Nemesis!

I ditched my fancy mouse pads and just use a very plain cloth one. I think I'll check out that MX-1000; you're the second person who has recommended it to me.

Well, I just ordered a laser mouse. I'll let ya know how it works!

Thanks!
J.

Well, I ordered a Logitech V150 Laser Mouse for Notebooks. It's much cheaper and has a cord. My husband just wasn't into spending as much as the MX-1000, and we do financial decisions together.

The good news is... It's a laser mouse. It arrived yesterday. The mouse was in clamshell packaging. It looked like difficult clamshell packaging… and was it ever! I attacked it with the scissors and got nowhere. It was doggone near impossible to cut, even with the heavy-duty carpet shears. They oughta make bulletproof vests for cops outa this stuff. I was finally able to cut it open enough that I could get my finger into a place at the top and then pry it open and get my hand in there, and then forcibly drag the mouse and the packing out through the small opening. Good thing that they're too cheap to include a CD in the package.

Speaking of which............ Believe it or not, I actually did something smart… no, really. I got to thinking and decided to go ahead and download a driver for the new mouse from the Logitech website yesterday, just in case the site had a newer version of the software than what came with the mouse. I did it at work in order to use the high-speed connection at work, as it was a 40 MB download. I saved it to a folder on my laptop. Well, as I mentioned, I found out that apparently the good folks at Logitech are now too cheap to include a driver CD with their mice. They have a note on the box and inside with the directions- in a bag the size of a CD sleeve- "To take full advantage of your Logitech mouse features, please download and install software from www.logitech.com/v150". It has a bunch of features that don't work without the software. Too bad if you don't have high-speed internet, I guess. I'm glad I downloaded that driver from work and don't have to do it from home! A 40 MB download on dialup? Puh-leeze! So for once I did the right thing and came out ahead! And so I promptly installed the software.

I am pleased to report that it does not have that aggravating wavering drunken feeling to it, and it does not have that floaty or lagging behind feel either. As a matter of fact, my new laser mouse seems to work pretty good, and I'm pleased!


Thanks, everyone.... and thanks for reading my mouse tail!

glad it's working. logitech has been releasing setpoint updates every 3 to 4 months it seems like -- so check back periodically.

while rarer, they also occassionally release firmware updates for the mice themselves.

My new laser mouse from Logitech died. Well, it didn't exactly die, but it was acting like it was on the critical list for sure! It started acting squirrelly- pun intended- with no provocation. I suddenly wasn't getting anywhere when I would double-click it… I had to click it hard and repeatedly. Sometimes that would work and sometimes it wouldn't. A little while after that I became aware that it would not select text either. I tried uninstalling it in the Device Manager and then rebooting and letting Windows find it again and that did no good. Maybe it needs new drivers, I thought, so I uninstalled the driver and then downloaded and installed a new one. That didn't help. I tried all the USB ports, both on the laptop itself and on my cooling pad hub, and nothing seemed to help. I looked up my invoice and I'd just ordered it on the 31st of October and the doggone thing has a three-year warranty, so I decided to call Logitech customer support. I had to wait on hold for a while, but eventually I got a fellow named Dennis, who spoke English; I think he was even in the USA. He asked me a bunch of questions about what my laser mouse was doing and what I had done to try and diagnose it. Everything he told me to try I had already done, so he finally went ahead and gave me a return authorization number. He took my address and all my information and said that they would send me a replacement, then I asked him where to send back the bad one. He replied that I could just keep it and use it as a paperweight or throw it away or whatever. I was pleased about that.

My only complaint is that it will be several weeks before I get it… do I go back to the annoying touchpad or the annoying mouse?