Computer Mouse Problems,

They're basically TV cameras, comparing successive frames and identifying movement, mostly successfully. Some surfaces can freak some of them out. I have a tablecloth with a repeating design that they don't seem to like.

Mine seems OK on a plain brown fake leather desk mat, about 30" x 20". In an emergency, a sheet of white copier paper usually works with most mice, with a bit of masking tape or similar to hold it still. It looks a pretty uniform white to us, but obviously contains enough small variations in reflectivity to work well. I think the angle of the laser helps highlight tiny shadows.

Otherwise it gets cold feet on that soggy little frigid island, stupid.

My hands like a warm mouse.

It was an experiment about using a cooler room. Most of me is happy in a room at about 15C or even below, my hands weren't.

I have one and it works on anything (so far!) Superb piece of hardware. Pity about the abysmal 'Options' software which offers so much, but gives so little.

And pity about the fact that they still keep using the cheapest microswitches they can fine and which never last for more than a year or so without double clicking etc. And the buggers only offer a 1 year warranty anymore. I have basically got free mice for decades now because they can hardly ever replace a failed mouse with the same model and so have to give a full refund.

I am getting so sick of it that I will probably try a mouse from Dell next to see if they last longer

When I first started using it, it would "nip" my hand between the edge of the mouse and the desk, I must have learned to hold it differently as it no longer does ...

I just don't let it install ...

Oh no you don't. I occasionally use a PS2 ball mouse & it's hard work compared to even a cheap £1 laser mouse.

I spent half my life cleaning bum fluff from ball mice.

Did your psychiatrist attach any significance to that?

Strangely, I have never had a psychiatrist.

Wear fingerless gloves.

Fingerless gloves are unpleasant, they get in the way.

Expensive (I'm sure they were cheaper) but had variants for decades because traditional meeces caused me major wrist problems.

No need for a mouse mat either. :-)

Cheers

Dave R

I volunteer at a local(ish) garden nursery(not for profit so I don't grudge working for nothing. They have done a lot to help my son and others like him). It's only one half day a week so hardly onerous, doing computer work.

You used to be able to buy metal mouse mats, with a smooth, but dot covered top for optical mouses and a rubberised underside to stop it moving about.

I would imagine those would work with 'normal' optical mice, but they were actually designed for SUN optical mice, which used red light for left/right and infrared for up/down (or vice-versa)

If your wrist is resting on that protrusion, how do you move the mouse ?.

Sounds like what you really need is something like those rodents that had a large trackball built in that you just operated with the tips of your fingers

I use an 'anglepoise' lamp above the mouse, and still have a supply of R40? halogen reflector lamps which provide the heat.

Absolutely no problem at all.

Chris