In the last two days my mouse has begun to disappear at random. I can be typing in Notepad and suddenly there’s not even a blinking cursor; a movement of the mouse reveals an arrow with the hourglass, and then the program responds again. Happens in Outlook, happens in Word, in Photoshop, and in gamees it’s worse, as the game will freeze in its current action, for instance if while walking the character just keeps on walking and all control is gone, and CTRL-ALT-DEL causes the desktop to go Quantum, blinking in and out in random places. I have not installed any software in the last few days. I (it JUST HAPPENED AGAIN!) did re-install Micrografix’s Picture Publisher a few days ago, and I uninstalled a trial of Network Magic (not really a free program it turns out), but that’s all. I checked the mouse driver (miMicro optical mouse std connection)and all other devices/drivers are fine, except an old SM bus controller issue I’ve had for over a year; I even took the whole pc apart and cleaned it, even to the point of re-installing the CPU with new goop and a thorough cleaning; I re-seated all cards and connections. What’s running in the background? Advanced Windows Care Pro 2.0, Charter F-Secure virus protection and a simple mouse control program. That’s it.
Dos anyone have any suggestions or directions for further investigation? It’s making the pc practically useless. Thanks.