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Frustrating Mouse Behavior

post #1 of 11
11/2/05 at 2:43am
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Yo,

This is driving me nutz.

My mouse will freeze very often and it won't work... just the mouse- for like a good 15 seconds to sometimes a minute, right when Im in the middle of something. Then it jumps back to life with the bells sounding; ding ding... (faster) ding ding. I check the connections and everythings fine.

I hate XP but I gotta have my games. I primarily use Linux and the mouse is 100% fine over on that side; no trouble whatsoever.

So that means it's not a hardware issue but rather a software issue. Driver is not that old.

Any suggestions?


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post #2 of 11
11/2/05 at 3:25am
Tried a different mouse yet?
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post #3 of 11
11/2/05 at 3:36am
the mouse is fine, windows just sucks. when did this start happening?
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post #4 of 11
11/2/05 at 4:17am
I don't know about that. I am not starting a fight (Windows/Linux) either, but I use primarily Windows and have never had a problem with the mouse freezing up (except back in the 95 days). I don't have that problem with Linux either, but then again I don't run a GUI in linux. Been using Debian for about 8-10 years now (pre-GUI days). Have you tried running with a task manager window running to see if a certain application might be hanging for a second which could cause the mouse to freeze like your anti-virus connecting to the net for updates. I sometimes get a slight lag (not in mouse just general system performance) when certain apps do updates or start up.
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post #5 of 11
11/2/05 at 4:18am
Double post delete me
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post #6 of 11
11/2/05 at 4:28am
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Originally Posted by Pharoke
I don't know about that. I am not starting a fight (Windows/Linux) either, but I use primarily Windows and have never had a problem with the mouse freezing up (except back in the 95 days). I don't have that problem with Linux either, but then again I don't run a GUI in linux. Been using Debian for about 8-10 years now (pre-GUI days). Have you tried running with a task manager window running to see if a certain application might be hanging for a second which could cause the mouse to freeze like your anti-virus connecting to the net for updates. I sometimes get a slight lag (not in mouse just general system performance) when certain apps do updates or start up.
not saying that crappy mousing is a general problem with windows, but generally, if it works in linux and doesnt work in windows, its a windows problem.

have you tried testing it in safe mode? spyware, adware, virus scan?
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post #7 of 11
11/2/05 at 1:04pm
Oh I agree with the windows problem and I will admit I didn't fully read his post the first time. I think it is a program that is running in the background that is hogging up resources and you are right it is probably spyware or adware.
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post #8 of 11
11/2/05 at 5:05pm
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Thanks for the input ladies/gentlemen.

Pharoke, thanks for re-reading my post.

Started happening around August I believe... but since like March/April I've done nothing that I can remember in the Vindoze environment... except regularly scheduled back-ups. I primarily use Linux.

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Originally Posted by drizek
not saying that crappy mousing is a general problem with windows, but generally, if it works in linux and doesnt work in windows, its a windows problem
Right on. After general deductive reasoning this is the conclusion Ive come to.

Now that you mention it, it does sounds like a resource problem. I will check on them... it's been awhile, Im a little rusty. Ill do the virus and spyware checks. But I do the checks about once a week and it's usually okay, nothing major.

After the scans Ill report back. And if still no luck Ill check with the 'hijackthis' guys over at another forum.


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post #9 of 11
11/2/05 at 7:15pm
You shouldn't need any mouse drivers for Windows. Just let Windows use the default drivers.
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post #10 of 11
11/2/05 at 8:27pm
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Originally Posted by CaptainMorgan
Thanks for the input ladies/gentlemen.

Pharoke, thanks for re-reading my post.
Hey no problem. As far as monitoring your resource usage you can open taskmanager by pressing ctrl+shift+esc. When I am having issues with resources I just collapse everything except image name and cpu usage and have a long list running down the side of my screen. I then notice if there is a huge spike in cpu usage and track down the culprit. 9 times out of 10 it is my McAfee doing web updates.
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post #11 of 11
11/3/05 at 5:04am
What mouse is it?
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