Gahhh! Intermittent mouse freezing. I need a geek!

[Hitcher]

Having just had to reboot for the fourth time tonight, I am getting more than a little irritated by an intermittant mouse freezing problem. I run a Microsoft optical mouse, so it can't be mechanical. Everything is plugged in all proper like. But every so often, when its fancy takes it, the mouse pointer just seizes up and don't move no more. Everything else on the old puter seems to work just fine.

What's the haps, peeps?

[Blakamin]

maybe nothing to do with your mouse... more likely your PC needs a clean (dust and stuff)... or your ram is screwed...

[Hitcher]

OK. Maybe I should have said I needed a REAL geek...

[madboy]

It'll be the virus that was downloaded with that last video file from www.teensforfree.com.

[thehollowmen]

Really?

It is a small hair catching under where the LED shines onto your desk.

Because of the shape of the hole I get them doing that all the @#$%#$$% time. When you reboot the computer i think it must disregard the hair from then on...

[korowetere]

Have you made any recent changes to your PC? Like new hard drive or something? I have this same problem on my computer a while back. Turns out it was a power supply problem. Very frustrating.

[Hitcher]

No recent hardware changes. I've just flossed the mouse's hole. Daily virus scan hasn't found anything untoward.

[rogson]

Beware, you are about to succumb to the cloak of darkness!

Download all your stuff onto CDs - immediately! Go out tonight and buy another puter (with the new wiz-bangs you absolutely need) and thank God (or me) that you have been rescued.

BTW - no charge

[limbimtimwim]

But every so often, when its fancy takes it, the mouse pointer just seizes up and don't move no more. Everything else on the old puter seems to work just fine.

Is it a USB mouse? The plug is a rectangle (Not a circle)? If it is a USB rodent, unplug it, wait a few seconds, and plug it back in again.

If the plug is a circle (Or a classic trapezoid!) don't do that, it won't help things.

Like someone else has asked; has anything changed?

[Karma]

Wireless optical mouse? anything memory intensive running on your pc? (DVD player etc...)

[Hitcher]

USB mouse. Going quite well at the moment...

[Karma]

USB mouse. Going quite well at the moment...

See... I fixed it.

[miSTa]

Nothing useful to add but perhaps it needs a bit of mouse on mouse action (see pic)?

[wendigo]

Not using Mozilla firefox 1.5 are you? If so this may be relevant -> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5...ml?tag=nl.e589

[Grizz]

Hitcher, by the sounds of it I have a similar mouse with a similar problem. It is a microsoft jobbie, and when it freezes up the red optical light goes out, give it a wiggle and a bash and it comes good, then goes ok for w hile then does the same thing. I was was just thinking of replacing it.