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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Flaky mouse
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.192745.5386@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1i9t69INN210@katmandu.solbourne.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:27:45 GMT
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- In article 1i9t69INN210@katmandu.solbourne.com, stevem@solbourne.com (Stephen Matson) writes:
- >
- > Recently my mouse has started to act less then obedient. It will work fine
- >for hours (or sometimes just minutes) and then , badabing badaboom, every
- >direction is reversed, up is down, down is up, left is.... well you get the
- >idea. The only way to fix this is to save what I'm doing and cold start it.
- >
- > Could this just be my mouse or is it something inside my box?
- >
- > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- >
- >Thanks.
- > Steve Matson.
-
- Well, that's pretty weird, alright, but the first step in fixing any mouse
- problems is to take it apart and clean the sucker. Make sure you get all
- the goop off the rollers when you do. It couldn't hoit. :)
-
- Barring this, there was a little semi-comedic virus running around a few years
- back that caused erratic mouse action such as you describe.
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