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by daniel.william-olsson

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OS: Windows XP Professional v.2002 service pack 1
Processor: Intell Celeron 1200Mhz 256 Mb RAM

Symptoms: The mouse gets ?tired?. At first it responds as normal but after use in some seconds it gets slow and the buttons and the wheel doesn?t work. If it ?rests? for some time it gets back to action for a couple of seconds and then get ?tired?. The mouse (cordless) has been working for 6 month and the problem is the same when I tested an other one (with cord).

Outbreak: After working (to long) I made a save and shortly after the mouse problem started.

Troubleshooting this far:
-I first looked up the mouse driver, which supposed to be OK. First I tried to update but it was latest version. I got desperate and deleted the driver but failed to reinstall it. On second boot, windows did it by itself. When I looked up the manufacturer I didn?t find a driver for my model. But as the mouse work on another computer so I don?t think that?s the problem.
-The hard drive the program I worked on is on (D:/) had little space left so I deleted some junk and made a defrag. I have done the same with C:/
-I have updated my virus program (AntiVir) and run it. No problem.
-I have run spybot. No problem.
-I have run hijackthis. No problem.

It seems to be a system failure and I don?t know how to deal with it. Of course I could reinstall Windows but it seems a bit drastic. Any ideas?

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by brian

This may sound like a really dumb suggetion - but sometimes it is so simple. Have you replaced the batteries in the mouse? Most take AA

by brian

Looking closer at your question, it appears you may be filling your hard drive with temp files. Err, or should I say Windows is creating temp files that eventually fill your hard drive.

Try to have at least an extra Gig. If you dont want to move or delete certain files, try resizing the recycle bin to a low percentage, reboot and see if it continues. In addition you may want to run a thorough scan of the hard drive using scandisk (chkdisk). The disk scan could take a few hours though. I don't think it is mouse related since you say you have the problem with a corded mouse too.

by thechas

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