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  1. 14th April 2017, 04:51 PM #1
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    Default Problems with cordless mouse

    The cursor movement on my desktop PC has become very jerky and erratic lately, I've tried a couple of new batteries and in the mouse that didn't make any difference. Running Win 7, the keyboard is behaving normally.
    If I move the mouse to and fro quickly the problem goes away for a while, but eventually the cursor movement becomes jerky again.
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    Try another mouse.
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    Might as well just go and buy a new one, they're cheap enough.
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    is it close enougn to the sensor? (sometimes the sensor thingo gets moved, etc)
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    If there is dust or hair in the light light sensor it can go skew-wiff
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    Nothing has changed, the dongle is still plugged in to the same USB port, there is no dust or hair on the sensor.
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    Plug dongle into another USB if its in the back of the PC put it into one of the front USB ports.
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    Has it got a mechanical roller in it that rolls on the desk? If so pull it out, clean the roller and the three rollers inside the mouse. if it has not got a roller clean the desk surface really well, I don't know why but the condition of the desk top affects mine. The laser lens on the non roller types needs to be clean as well. That used to be a good trick to play on someone, a piece of sticky tape over the lens.
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    Other than recommendations already made ...Might be worth checking if you have any background processes consuming gobs of CPU ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by jms_8087 View Post
    Plug dongle into another USB if its in the back of the PC put it into one of the front USB ports.
    Okay, so I plugged the dongle in to one of the USB ports at the front of the PC and it worked fine. I then plugged it in to a different USB port at the back and it became jerky again. I've got it plugged it to a front port now and everything is working well.
    This is one of the things that p!$$es me off about computers, some piece of hardware will work fine for years, then all of a sudden it decides to spit the dummy and refuse to work. It's not broken, just needs to be unplugged and plugged back in again, or connected to a different port.

    Thanks for all the suggestions people, I had tried most of them, or they were not relevant to my situation.
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    Should I take it out for dinner occasionally?
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    It has been my experience that computers sense when we are under stress and do their best to add to it any way they can.
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