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ever just sit there, and out of no were your mouse pointer will move? shake over to the right or left about 3 inches. I was sitting here, then all of a sudden, my mouse skids over about 3inches with a nasty shake.

any cause? or just stupid computer.

I vote stupid comptuer. My laptop does it every now and then if I use my touch paid. I reduced it by installing the correct drivers but it still does it from time to time

If you use an optical mouse, there may be dust near the sensor.

no, i'm to cheap, i use the reg. good ol, PS/2 microsoft mouse

I have a optical mouse that cost $6.99... The non optical was $4.99...

i'll admit, i bought a optical mouse one time, and installed it, rebooted, it worked for 5 min, and froze on my screen, i said fuck it, took it back and stayed with PS/2.

Master Jedi wrote:If you use an optical mouse, there may be dust near the sensor.

That or a dog hair, if you have a dog That used to happen to me and I was so confused and upset...then I realized there was a dog hair stuck in the hole that the laser shines down through.

Jrrtt37 wrote:i'll admit, i bought a optical mouse one time, and installed it, rebooted, it worked for 5 min, and froze on my screen, i said fuck it, took it back and stayed with PS/2.

Just to note:

Optical does not mean no more PS/2 (And why you would use PS/2 when you can (with out effort) use USB is beyond me).

PhaseDMA wrote:I have a optical mouse that cost $6.99... The non optical was $4.99...

Lucky bastard. I bought the M$ Optical Intellimouse .. for like $45. It's such a rip-off .. but it works great. I've had it for years, and never once had a problem.

And it being USB in conjuction with the optical mouse movements.. give you precision pointing you just can't get from a plain 'ole trackball mouse.

PhaseDMA wrote:

Jrrtt37 wrote:i'll admit, i bought a optical mouse one time, and installed it, rebooted, it worked for 5 min, and froze on my screen, i said fuck it, took it back and stayed with PS/2.

Just to note:

Optical does not mean no more PS/2 (And why you would use PS/2 when you can (with out effort) use USB is beyond me).

uhh... id rather use my PS/2 port and not waste a usb 2.0 port... its like getting a serial thing for ur usb port to use a 33.3 k modem instead of using com1.

x Wasted Mind x wrote:

PhaseDMA wrote:I have a optical mouse that cost $6.99... The non optical was $4.99...

Lucky bastard. I bought the M$ Optical Intellimouse .. for like $45. It's such a rip-off .. but it works great. I've had it for years, and never once had a problem.

And it being USB in conjuction with the optical mouse movements.. give you precision pointing you just can't get from a plain 'ole trackball mouse.

I have a M$ Trackball Explorer...it's old, but I think it's pretty good.

Me I left the tracking ball mouse 3 years ago and I have never look back. I hated having to clean the tracking ball mice every month or so to just make htem work. Hell right now about every time I use want of the school computers I clean the mouse.

As for my mouse I paid 20 bucks for a 5 buttom mouse. and I think that 20 bucks is a good deal for a 5 button optical mouse

Robpol86 wrote:

PhaseDMA wrote:

Jrrtt37 wrote:i'll admit, i bought a optical mouse one time, and installed it, rebooted, it worked for 5 min, and froze on my screen, i said fuck it, took it back and stayed with PS/2.

Just to note:

Optical does not mean no more PS/2 (And why you would use PS/2 when you can (with out effort) use USB is beyond me).

uhh... id rather use my PS/2 port and not waste a usb 2.0 port... its like getting a serial thing for ur usb port to use a 33.3 k modem instead of using com1.

I only have one PS/2 port (laptop), but it's a pain to get to the USB port (laptop) (3 times a day).

yes, i rather have the USB port open especially when i have the ps/2 port open.

I switch bettween them. at home on the home desktop I tend to use the PS2 mouse because why waste a perfertily good USB port. But sometimes I connect my mouse to the computer though a USB because quite simplely I like it more and it easier to steal. At home on that comptuer quite offen it is running with 2-3 mice and 2 keyborads. as for my laptop I dont have a choice i have to USB