Help...D:

Er, well, last night my mouse literally DIED on me. So I left it alone for a while, and this morning when I got up, it worked for about five minutes before stopping again. Technically what it does, is while I move the physical mouse around FRANTICALLY, the pointer just sits there. It's really, REALLY frustrating (and believe me when I say it's frustrating, because I can't use the mouse to go up and put anything in italics). The only way I'm navigating my computer and this site is the Start menu button on my keyboard and the tab button, which is a pretty sad and sorry way to use a computer.

My mouse is a wireless laser mouse with an invisible laser. The mouse and the keyboard are both wireless and come in a special package together, and both have buttons on them incase this happens. All you're supposed to do is hit the button on the main unit (that either sends a signal to them, recieves a signal from them, or both, I'm not sure exactly), and then hit a small white button on the keyboard/mouse to stop it from malfunctioning. This works like a charm with the keyboard, but does nothing with the mouse. I also don't think it's my mouse's batteries, because I just replaced them recently, and if it is I'm screwed for now because I don't have an extra mouse, nor do I have extra batteries. So if anyone knows what's wrong (er...Lol...But...Can't hurt to try, right?), and if there's a way to fix this, please let me know! And sorry if this is in the wrong section, I don't know where to put it and it would take forever to go through every single forum using the Tab button looking for the right place, so I took an educated guess.

((And if it helps any, I've already tried unplugging the main unit, taking the mouse's batteries out and putting them back, and restarting the computer...They don't do much, if anything at all, but sometimes that works for a few minutes.))

 

was there a troubleshooting book that came with the mouse? maybe the answer is in there.
keep trying to fix it with the buttons. if nothing works, you might need a new mouse.

 

This actually happens often with the mouse of Yukai's parents. Have you been using the same batteries?

If you have, the non-moving cursor is a sign you need to change the batteries as it takes a lot of juice to maintain that laser all the time.

 

Thanks for the help, both of you, I just needed new batteries...Which is pretty dumb because I just replaced them =/. I only had to wait HALF THE DAY to get a hold of some, lol...Er, anyway. Everything's working now ;D. Thank you.