Post subject: Problem with my computer mouse
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Hello, I have a problem with my mouse that I don't know how to solve and I don't think it hurts if I start asking for help in as many places as possible. I was using this mouse http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270911436924 , it worked perfectly. Then it broke and I got a new one from the store which didn't work well. Then I bought the mouse from ebay again and it works fine, there's just one problem: Whenever I place the mouse down, it hangs for 1 second before it moves around. No matter how fast the motion is it would always hang for exactly 1 second. When I plugged this mouse in it installed driver software even though it was the same kind as the original one that broke... I don't really know what I could do. The settings don't show any option that has to do with locking the mouse after laying it down - I didn't change settings and the problem didn't occur previously. Rebooting PC didn't help. --- I notice that when I hold the mouse upside down in my hand and move my finger across the light, the cursor moves instantly. So there isn't a lock in that case. I've always been using a paper as my mouse pad and it always worked.. --- it seems that I'm now in need of a mousepag with a rough surface. That seems to work. Still it's bothering me why I it always worked in the past and now I had to face this problem... --- I confirmed that this is a technical defect in the new mouse. The old mouse (of which only one key broke so I could still plug it in and move around with it) always moved around instantly after I placed it down on any surface. It seems to turn out that this was about a defect in the mouse I was using, rather than a bad driver or a setting that I needed to change. The new mouse which had this issue seems to be from a different kind than the one that I used previously. I'm currently contacting the ebay seller to negotiate what we should do.