Dodgy mouse

oliveoyl

Can anyone tell me what I can do to stop my mouse from being mental?

When I use the scroll wheel the screen page just carries on moving after I've stopped scrolling... it does about 5 jerky either up or down movements before stopping... it's well annoying.

TIA

beatlestones

This could simply be a system performance issue rather than the mouse. Unfortunately with the rollerball it is easier to just get a new mouse (about £5 from Tesco, etc.)

If you tap either Page Down/the down arrow on your keyboard does it jerk in a similar slow fashion.

Also does this only appear on certain media (i.e. only when browsing the net? or no matter what you scroll through)

oliveoyl

Thanks for your reply.

No, it doesn't do it with the up/down keys, nor when I'm doing other things, in a Word document for example.

Do you know how I can fix it?

beatlestones

If its only doing it when you're surfing the web then it would most likely be down to one of two things:-

1. The page you're viewing is full of stuff (MSE for example its pretty over the top with its content. But more likely if you're on something like youtube where the computer has to try and do something, like show you a moving image whilst you're in the process of scrolling) then you'll get slowdown - .
2. It may be work changing the web browser you use... something like Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.com) will render things on screen a LOT more efficiently then Microsoft's Internet Explorer. If you need help installing let me know.

5bellies_2

oliveoyl wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what I can do to stop my mouse from being mental?

When I use the scroll wheel the screen page just carries on moving after I've stopped scrolling... it does about 5 jerky either up or down movements before stopping... it's well annoying.

TIA

The roller wheel usually has a click function that allows you to click once, them move the mouse (not the wheel) to scroll the page. I'd chance that the click button is knackered and the mouse wants replacing. Try clicking it and seeing if a circle with a black centre and two arrows top and bottom appears. If they do, them you should be able to scroll up and down on the movement of the mouse. If they don't, then it's probably duff.

KeithP

The fix is...
Buy a new mouse... they're cheap enough.

beatlestones

oliveoyl wrote: »

No, it doesn't do it with the up/down keys, nor when I'm doing other things, in a Word document for example.

If its working in Word, and elsewhere, but not on web pages the mouse is fine - its a page rendering issue.

oliveoyl

Thanks for the replies. If it was a knackered mouse then it would also do it when I do other stuff on the computer wouldn't it? Given it only does it on the web, I thought there might be a setting to tinker with somewhere?

It's not my PC btw... I'm staying at a friend's house so I don't know if it's always done it (they're on hol so can't ask).

oliveoyl

I tried that, but it still does it, just jerkier.

I just tried it with AOL's browser and it didn't do it at all, so I'll download Firefox in the morning.

Thanks all

beatlestones

Trust me, Firefox is the way forward ;-)

Internet Explorer is a very badly written bloaty pit of ----. Hope FF works for you.