Mouse freeze ups

[rfdjr1]

Every now and then my Logitech blue tooth mouse freezes on the screen. The
cursor just stops moving for about thirty seconds then all is fine again. It's
not that big of a problem but just annoying enough. I'm running Windows 7
Professional, 64 bit with 12Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1Gb video card. Any
ideas why this occurs? Thanks.

 

[Char Jackson]

Every now and then my Logitech blue tooth mouse freezes on the screen. The
cursor just stops moving for about thirty seconds then all is fine again. It's
not that big of a problem but just annoying enough. I'm running Windows 7
Professional, 64 bit with 12Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1Gb video card. Any
ideas why this occurs? Thanks.

Weak batteries?
RF interference?
Piece of glitter or dirt under the mouse?
Computer malware?

 

[Bob I]

I would run Task Manager and watch to see if something is eating all the
CPU cycles when this happens. If you minimize the Task Manager after you
start it, you will still have the "CPU activity" viewable in the
"Notification area"

 

[Percival P. Cassidy]

Every now and then my Logitech blue tooth mouse freezes on the screen. The
cursor just stops moving for about thirty seconds then all is fine again. It's
not that big of a problem but just annoying enough. I'm running Windows 7
Professional, 64 bit with 12Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1Gb video card. Any
ideas why this occurs? Thanks.

I thought at first that you were going to describe the same problem that
I have with my Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman, but no.

Mine does not usually freeze once the computer is up and running, but it
is sometimes inactive when the machine first starts up -- until I unplug
and reconnect the receiver.

Perce

 

[dweebken]

Every now and then my Logitech blue tooth mouse freezes on the screen. The
cursor just stops moving for about thirty seconds then all is fine again. It's
not that big of a problem but just annoying enough. I'm running Windows 7
Professional, 64 bit with 12Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1Gb video card. Any
ideas why this occurs? Thanks.

I have a Targus BT mouse and a Microsoft BT mouse, and both work pretty
happily on Win 7 Pro 64 bit (on a Toshiba Portege R830 Laptop, with 8 GB
memory and a 256 GB Corsair SSD). The only whinge I have is that they
don't work for a few secs after coming out of sleep mode. The other
whinge is that they don't work in Safe mode (whereas the wireless
mouse+dongle does work in Safe mode).

 

[Paul]

And one "saturating" signal source (common by the way) is a cheezy
wallwart. (or "outlet-mounted power supply with a DC power cord).

It's just a nasty side-effect of badly designed and/or built switching
regulators, but also a fail-mode on 'good" ones.

It really doesn't matter what device it powers (or charges). I've seen
bad wallwarts on everything from baby-bottle warmers to military
ECM/ECCM gear.

I spent 10+ years investigating interference problems for a public
utility, and there's a "virtual dumpster" full of the bad ones I've
found. (think 40' container).

Most are easy, they are so bad that they 'take out' the obvious stuff
like broadcast radio and TV as soon as they are plugged in, or if they
are in a 'hard charge' mode.

I don't even want to start on the hard-to-find ones.

FWIW, I've had to replace 4 of the ~10 wallwarts in my own house over
the last 3 years over interference issues. 2 of those required using
and/or modifying aftermarket units as the vendors repeatedly failed to
provide good replacements.

This is just opinion.

As an aside on Bluetooth... it's been one of the better RF protocols
regarding outside interference, but bad Bluetooth devices can kill BT
for hundreds of feet. I had a cheap ($23) BT headset that killed off
*any* other BT device in the house if the battery even slightly dropped
from full-charge.

The only strange one I've had here, is an Antec ATX power supply
pumping so much noise back into the AC line, it causes sync to drop
on the ADSL modem.

All my wall warts (and I have a "Christmas tree" of them), have been
relatively well behaved. It's a good thing I don't use Wifi or BT, so
I'll never know if they're interfering

The only Wifi gadget I've got, is Wifi in the laptop, but there's no
Wifi on the router for it to use. I do everything with wires here.
I like the reliability of wired mice and keyboards, and Ethernet cables.

Paul

 

[Art Todesco]

Every now and then my Logitech blue tooth mouse freezes on the screen. The
cursor just stops moving for about thirty seconds then all is fine again. It's
not that big of a problem but just annoying enough. I'm running Windows 7
Professional, 64 bit with 12Gb RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1Gb video card. Any
ideas why this occurs? Thanks.

My neighbor had a similar problem with XP and a wired mouse, so I don't
think it really had anything to do with the mouse itself. I'm pretty
sure his was some process sucking up all the processor time. I also had
the same problem with my XP box and a wired mouse. On that machine, I
could never determine what caused it, however, a reboot would fix it for
the time being. It seemed to happen when you opened many windows,
operating many different programs. My point is to maybe try a wired
mouse as it might not be the BT.