On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:18 -0600, green wrote: > John W Foster wrote at 2009-03-25 16:31 -0600: > > All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real > > culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly > > decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD... The optical mouse was > > trying to work on a plain gray featureless desktop. Back on the pad & no > > probs. > > I was disappointed by one optical mouse; for me there are 2 reasons to have > an > optical mouse: no cleaning, and no mouse pad. But this one would not work on > one of those white 8ft folding plastic tables. It seems to me that an > optical > mouse should work on nearly any surface (except maybe a mirror or similar). Well I supposed the same, turns out I should have already read up on them.This seems to be a recurring issue with them as they need to somwhow know they are moving, & when they can not 'see' any differences in reflected ir light beams they get lost, then they try to 'catch up'. At any rate I am satisfied with getting rid of the problem..After all I've had the wife 41 years :-) -- John Foster
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