I have a Lenovo PC running Win7. I don’t remember when I bought it, but it’s been a few years. I was using a Rocketfish wireless mouse until recently when it started acting up. Periodically for no apparent reason, it would seem to lose control, and my cursor would either not move, or jump randomly around the screen before recovering and acting normal again. It has fresh batteries. Most of the time, it seemed to be fine, but I got tired of messing with it, so I swapped it out for a Microsoft wireless mouse that I’d been using with the laptop.
It occasionally acts up, too. The other day, the cursor froze, and I had to do a restart to get it to work again. It’s been fine, but considering that’s two different weirdnesses, I have to wonder if it’s a mouse driver issue or the first of my computer’s death throes. I’ve considered digging out an old wired mouse and seeing how that goes, but that would require remembering where one might be and crawling under my desk to hook it up.
Before I resort to such desperate measures, I’m hoping someone here can suggest something I can try or tweak. I will be backing up my data, just in case there might be imminent death of the machine. I don’t want to have to take it to a shop and I consider myself minimally competent at doing computer stuff, and I prefer not to open the case.
I know that wasn’t a helpful answer. Sorry. Leveno makes some quality products. Is your track-pad working? If so then you have a breakdown with your wireless mouse.
I also started having intermittent mouse issues, similar to yours. But mine is a wired mouse into USB port, but an old version requiring a 7-pin adapter. I think I resolved the issue by squirting a bit of isopropyl into the connections. You might have a bit of gunk buildup on your contact points inside your mouse, try opening it up and putting some cleaner on the contacts.
I have to say I was expecting an OP about rodents. Kinda looking forward to how mice were involved in impending doom. A swarm into the house? Mouse spelling words with crumbs? Mice dancing? I’ll never know now…
My concern is that I had the problem with 2 different mice on the same computer. I know batteries are good, and they’re both optical mice, so there’s no crud-in-the-mechanism issue. I suppose it’s entirely possibly that I have 2 bad mice - I have no idea how old either one is. It just seemed odd that both would semi-crap-out at the same time.
And naturally, since posting the question, the Microsoft mouse has been working just fine. I haven’t tried using the other one again yet. But I’m guessing it’s more than likely not a sign that the computer is about to die…
Have you tried checking the settings in the Mouse control panel?
I can’t think of anything would necessarily cause the problems you’re seeing, but you might try some of these:
if there are additional vendor options, they may appear as additional tabs in that panel. (For example, mine shows tabs for ELAN and Logitech SetPoint). Since third-party vendors can put all kinds of options there, who knows what you might find?
The Hardware tab allows you to see each device, and a Properties button there will show detailed information, including driver version and an event log. Hard to say whether you might see anything useful to a mere mortal there, but worth looking.
I doubt it’s a sign of Impending Doom. I would guess it’s a wireless problem. Are you connecting your mice through a built in bluetooth or some kind of IR receiver?
Are you trying to connect the MS mouse through the same receiver that the Rocketfish (who?) mouse uses?
I think it’s worth swiping a wired mouse from someone else and trying that.
Be sure you’ve uninstalled the drivers for the Rocketfish mouse and/or installed fresh drivers for the new wired mouse.
