Saturday, December 17, 2011

My Mouse Doesn’t Work

The computer mouse is one of the most important devices on your computer. With today’s graphically-intensive user interfaces, a mouse is the leading choice to interact with programs. This is because of its ease of use; just point-and-click and drag-and-drop and you can quite easily do a whole catalogue of commands. This is why it is important to have a responsive mouse. The problems that can result from a slow mouse can be compounded even more if the mouse in question is not responding at all. Although you can probably work with a keyboard alone, you will be essentially disabled or even maybe not able to fully access the complete capabilities of your computer.

So why is your mouse not working? Most of the time it’s a simple hardware problem: just a loose connection to your port. Just detach and reattach and you’ll be fine. However, there is a significant percentage of mouse problems being based in the software side of things. This usually means a driver problem. A simple way to determine if the software is the problem is to just hook the mouse up to another computer. Usually if it works there and not on your computer, you’re facing a device driver problem.

Mouse Doesn’t Work

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