On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:56:35AM -0700, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> My Microsoft Intellimouse which came with this computer in 1997, is
> beginning to act like those Mac mice do when they're dirty. When you
> move the mouse the arrow on the screen stalls out every once in a
> while. So I took the ball out and there was a lot of lint and dirt
> inside of the mouse. I vacumed out the opening of the mouse and cleaned
> the ball with alcohol and a Q-tip. Suprisingly, however, the mouse is
> working just like it did. Does that mean it's time to buy a new mouse?
The mouse ball rolls on rollers, which get cruded up (technical term ;-)
make sure they are clean and don't have a ring of crud where they hit
the mouse ball. Often it's pretty persistant stuff that needs scraped
off.
Usually after similar it's some approximation of new...
