My NEW mouse on my old computer is acting up (won't de-select) ever since we got it "fixed"... so I'm thinking the best thing to do is uninstall and reinstall the mouse.... how do I do that? And please don't give me sarcastic responses about buying a new mouse since I got 4 freaking mice and 1 of them is 2 weeks old and it's never been used... the mice work all fine on the new computer...
is the mouse ps/2, or usb? some older systems might have problems with usb ones... to reinstall: right click My Computer -> Properties -> Hardware tab -> Device Manager -> go to your mouse, uninstall it. your system should be able to re-detect it automatically. if any driver cds/floppies came with your mouse, install that... and instead update the driver.
^Thanks! The mouse is a USB but it's got a connecting ps2 port thingy... my computer intially could read ALL of them... but they went through a COMPLETE freeze (no clue what happened)... took it to techinicians... now it works... but it's SLOOOOOOOOOOOW and the mouse doesn't deselect ones you select something
Yes, you could also play with the setting under control panel. All I could suggest... I doubt that will help anything as well. Sounds more like a hardware issue. Something has messed up the boards or something. Wether it be a virus (that more than likely caused the freezing) or something the tech did. Who knows. I suggest, unfortunately, getting another computer too. Unless you are just using this computer as something alternative from your new one. Then, in this case, I would just leave this computer. I say it's gone on the mouse side. I use the keyboard (because I am lazy) to do more than 80% of the things I do though. You can select things with key variations anyways, just a series of alts, tabs, over keys, window key, prnt scrn, etc... Concidering that mouse movement is all interprited as a series of keyboard movements in NTFS.
