Boyd Ramsay wrote:
>Perhaps it's time to hold an "inquest". How do they "die"? Does the
>cable crack or pull out at one end? When you opened it up to clean it,
>was it full of cat fur? Look for similarities. It may be that a little
>fine soldering after shortening the cable slightly will resurrect most of
>the mice in your junk box.
Imagine this, some sort of thing (let's call it a "link" - but it can be
other things as well) is on the screen. To be able to use this I place my
right hand on the mouse, moves the mouse in the correct direction. But a
few pixels (up to 1 cm) away the mouse pointer stops! Imagining that
something is in the way for the mouse pointer <g> I move it in a wide
circle around and aproaches the point where I want it to be from another
direction. After a time I need to do this not just once but perhaps 10
times! And then I go and buy a new mouse. (I bang the mouse on my table
when it does this "stop right before I want it to be thing" as well).
Cleaning the mouse hasn't helped yet - but I try and keep it clean (however
it stops working after the same ammount of time anyway).
>Just an aside, but it may be quicker and easier to replace rather than repair
>- but if you know why they fail, you can take steps to prevent other
>failures.
Yes, they fail because I use them so I try and minimize the use of the
mouse as much as possible (finding the keyboard shortcut for sending mail
in Netscape took soe time - CTRL-ENTER - In Eudora all shortcuts can be
reached via a special help screen). It haven't worked better when I try and
minimze usage.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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