external mouse problem

[pipspeak]

I've been happily using an external USB wheel mouse with the TP drivers but all of a sudden the wheel has started playing up. Instead of the wheel scrolling up and down it now scrolls down and down. Turn it forward and it scrolls down. Turn it back and it scrolls down.

Every other aspect of the mouse works fine, and the only change made to my computer recently was installing a flash plugin for Netscape, which I doubt affected the drivers in any way. I have also reinstalled the Ultranav driver but still no change.

Anyone have any idea what might have caused this?

[mdarnton]

When I started having mouse problems I did tons of research, found lots of people with problems, and no solutions. The thing that finally worked for me was to roll my system back a week to when everything was working right. In my case, since I had a bunch of different mice, after I rolled back I threw out the one that I thought had initiated the problem (which then affected ALL my mice), and haven't had a problem since.

Then if it's all working right again, try reinstalling the plugin and see what happens--you can always roll it back, forget the plugin, or try a different mouse.

[pipspeak]

What mouse problems were you having?

The scrolling wheel issue seems rare... I found only a few instances of people having the same problem but the research trails quicky ran cold.

I turned my system back a day to when there were no problems and still no luck. I installed, reinstalled, uninstalled a bunch of mouse drivers and still no luck. I checked the bios settings and they all look fine. All I can think is that the registry got screwed up in some way, though the restore would surely have fixed that?

I can't imagine it's a physical problem with the mouse (they're hardly hi-tech) but I'll test it on another machine to make sure. I will cry if such a silly problem requires a total disk rebuild. But I can't live without my wheel!!

[pipspeak]

Here's something strange... I disabled the wheel detection in the mouse settings, restarted my machine, and the wheel is still working (incorrectly). Could this be a clue of what's going wrong, or is it to be expected?

I'm also curious whether systme restore also restores the registry to its former state. Anyone?

Cheers.

[mdarnton]

Perhaps it's the mouse?
My mouse was cutting in and out every couple of seconds, but only one had that effect--the rest were acting fine. . . so I stopped trying to figure it out, and threw out the mouse. :-)

[c888a]

I use MS Notebook Optical Mouse with Intellipoint 5.0 software. The wheel mouse works perfectly.