Hi again FOR. The current mouse is wireless and goes straight onto the board via USB while both of the cable mice I sometimes use (particularly when the previous wireless mouse packed up due to the failure of its charger and I still had to go out to buy a new wireless one) plugs into a USB socket on the front of my computer so probably uses what you call an internal hub. Anyway, all of these mice show exactly the same problem irrespective of the connection used. It sort of makes one think that the problem may lie elsewhere.
Hi green granite. That's interesting. If the mouse has "lost its focus" it would still scroll and move, wouldn't it (which it does)? When the mouse is not working properly the page in use is often paler than usual and mouse clicks are ineffective. When I open Task Manager to start my "fix" that box appears in full dense colour but goes pale when I make the first unsuccessful click to close it but then the second mouse click works fine on what is now a pale page and Task Manager closes. That leaves the mouse working perfectly - for a while.
Last edited by Cameronian; 14th December 2010 at 04:40.