Nervous Mouse Syndrome

[Joseph]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
> 
>> WHOA!  Hold IT!  Put on the brakes!   <GRIN>
>>
>> I'm not sure why it seems some of you believe I have a wireless.  I probably wasn't clear....  my 
>> mouse is corded with an PS2 (little round) plug....   it's just an optical track ball.
> 
> When I have a corded optical mouse do this, it's often been because:
> 
> a) the surface was SMOOOOOOTH and unbroken in color, and that mouse was 
> going ga ga because it couldn't see a difference in the surface.  Used a 
> mousepad or a sheet of paper and it suddenly worked.
> 
> b) the surface was SHINY, or transparent with an offset (i.e., plexi or 
> glass surface on top of a desk) so it scattered the light and told the 
> mouse it was moving when it wasn't.
> 
> I've read about a case where a mouse went nuts because sunlight was 
> shining just right at a particular time of day and it was creeping into 
> the mouse housing and interfering with a sensor.  Remove the hand, 
> pointer was moving by itself.
> 
> Don't know if any of these help...
> 
> -Bart
> 


Bart, I appreciate your advice, but with my model of optic track ball, the SMOOOOOOTH and SHINY 
aren't applicable.  The optic part is behind the ball which is operated by the thumb....   See the 
link in one of my previous eMails.

I DID see an improvement when I took it off the hard wooden desk top and put it on a folded shirt. 
I wonder if a vibration of some kind coming through the desk may have caused that...

And I thoroughly clean the ball and socket daily, so even that shouldn't have been a real issue.

Anyway, except for the two page buttons not working, it seems to be working fine.

Joseph