Wacky Mouse Behavior

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I’m using Windoze 10 22H2 since September and I have been plagued by wacky mouse behavior for the past week or two (today is Nov 10). Text selection seems to have an evil mind of its own. I have NOT changed any mouse settings, and I have reinstalled my mouse drivers, but they just get replaced my the Windoze drivers anyway. Any ideas?

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Can you substitute another mouse, or try the errant mouse on another computer? Perhaps the mouse has a hardware problem and the timing is just a coincidence. Always good to rule out a hardware issue before troubleshooting the software!

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If this is a wired mouse try a different USB port. If it is wireless, try new batteries.

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The battery is good, the USB port doesn’t change the behavior. The problem seems to be only with my Windoze boxes, my Linux toy is just fine.

If I try to select a line of test it will start to highlight a selection, then drop that selection and start selecting at some other point on the line, or maybe wrap to the next or previous line.

 

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Sounds like the switches in the buttons are worn; maybe dirty?

Also since this is wireless, make sure there is no other sources of 2.4GHz signals or interference: microwaves, remotes, etc.

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BitDefender found nothing interesting, however sfc/scannow found a number of issues.

I’ll have to wait and see…

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Had the same sort of behavior with a Microsoft Wireless Mouse intended for use with portable laptop computers. Would not respond to a click, and then would double respond, or select the wrong words when doing a cut and paste. The answer was that the left mouse button was, after years of use, just worn out. Replaced the mouse and all was well. I suspect a hardware issue in your case.

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Welcome to the wonderful Windoze 10 world.  I use Linux Mint, Win 7, and Win XP.  I refuse to put up with all the problems and headaches of Winblows (as in UP) 10.

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I would forbid MS installs of drivers in general. In local computer policy under windows update if you have the pro version.

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might be worth cleaning the mouse sensor (and mechanics if it has them) – it might be the polling speed on the Windows box is higher so it’s reacting to noise the other OS doesn’t see as the driver on the non Windows machine either smooths the value of just happens to miss the spurious signals..

I doubt you’re intentionally overclocking your mouse but maybe you could try underclocking it a bit? That said it seems all the options to tweaking that interface are gone, which perhaps indicates you might have a legacy OEM app for mouse control lurking which is now causing the problem with recent updates (though it’s hard to square that with driver signing changes made some time back, it still might be confusing things by creating legacy registry entries like MouseDataQueueSize.)

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I substituted computers and it went away. My problem box is an i7 Dell 9010.

But I also have Windoze 10 22H2 running on an i7 7010, and another running Debian Linux, that don’t have the problem behavior with the same wireless mouse.

So I’m going to find a USB rodent, plug it in, delete the wireless mouse in DeviceManager, then reboot and try reinstalling it just for fun.

Dave

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DaveH52 wrote:

So I’m going to find a USB rodent, plug it in, delete the wireless mouse in DeviceManager, then reboot and try reinstalling it just for fun.

I guess because I’m older and grouchier these days, I definitely would not consider this time wasting inconvenience to be fun.

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I give up! I’m switching to Linux!

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