Freezing mouse.

crafting-queen

I use a plug in mouse on my laptop, recently it has started to freeze up, initially I just waited and carried on, but now I am finding it so irritating.
I have looked on the net and all the solutions seem to involve downloading a free programme then once the fault is established paying for it to clear the fault.
Is there anyway of sorting out this problem myself. I am not particularly computer literate, I know a little but not an enormous amount.
I have changed the mouse, but no difference, and have checked it in safe mode and it works fine. I have an Emachines on windows 7

paddyrg

Wow, all those solutions you found sound exactly like scams!

Have you given the mouse a good clean, tried different USB ports, etc yet? Did you recently install anything which may be interfering? When it freezes does the whole computer freeze? Can you hear a lot of disk activity when it does?

Sparhawke

What mouse do you have?

I am betting it is the drivers, try removing the mouse driver and then rebooting your computer, it should load up the driver automatically again, or manually update it yourself

crafting-queen

I have tried a different mouse, I didn't have a driver for the mouse, it just plugged in, it was working fine before, one Targus, the other was an LG scanning mouse which did have a driver.
Yes the laptop does freeze sometimes as well for a short while.

Ron_Doran

crafting-queen - I am also suffering a stuttering mouse - only happened today. No obvious reason why. Will look with great interest in any replies.

Ron_Doran

Did a restart - seems to behaving now. Could it be heat

Ron_Doran

Two days ago now I downloaded Microsoft Downloads which contained about seven Updates for .Net 4.5.
Could this be part of my problem?