Have you tried disabling the built in mouse on the laptop? That cured my problem. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: <wstjs@aol.com> To: <computers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] COMPUTERS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 118 > > Neither of mine have balls anymore either. The one with my computer works > fine but the one with my laptop jumps all over the place and is a pain. > Thought maybe cleaning might help since I have repeated adjusted the mouse > in the computer but nothing helps, > > > -----Original Message----- > From: George Elting <justgeo1@comcast.net> > To: computers <computers@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sat, Nov 16, 2013 10:05 pm > Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] COMPUTERS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 118 > > > Mine is an optical mouse, so no ball... and when I had mice with balls, I > always cleaned the ball and rollers... This is not a ball issue, it's more > likely something with the scroll wheel and seems to be software related. > > -----Original Message----- > From: computers-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:computers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dale Marshall > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 7:33 PM > To: computers@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] COMPUTERS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 118 > > Ever clean your mouse balls? If you have a mouse ball riding on 3 > contacts > or 3 rollers they accumulate fuzz & gunk. > > I have to clean mine every week or so. > > Dale in Michigan, USA > =============== >>Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Mouse scroll judder (Kizzie Newman) >> 2. Re: Mouse scroll judder (Nivard Ovington) >> 3. Re: Mouse scroll judder (Nivard Ovington) >> 4. Re: Mouse scroll judder (George Elting) > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on > the > list. You can buy/sell for free on the Genealogical Materials lists. > > This list is for peer-to-peer support and discussion of computer problems > incurred in genealogy research. Use caution when following any advice. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on > the list. You can buy/sell for free on the Genealogical Materials lists. > > This list is for peer-to-peer support and discussion of computer problems > incurred in genealogy research. Use caution when following any advice. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message