Slow mouse and other things

OK, I'm tired of my computer and though I don't come here often at all, I remembered this forum's computer section. Enough rambling, here's what's going on. My mouse hardly moves! I have a trackball mouse and the trackball moves very loosely and as freely as it wants, but that doesn't mean crap to the cursor. It started maybe 1-3 months ago and at times, after I clean the registry, it improves. Today, I just did a whole bunch of maintenence, defragged the hard drive, cleaned out temp files, virus scans, spyware scans... virus scans came up clean, but 68 items of spyware were removed. I can see why as I was using IE6 and Outlook 2003 for awhile and then alternating between Mozilla products a couple times. I tried Mozilla 1.7.12, but it lacked compared to Thunderbird and Firefox which I've just reinstalled. I'm running XP Pro with Service Pack 2 and I am about ready to smash this thing with a mallet if it doesn't straighten up and fly right!

 

hi....
maybe you could try using a online webscan service

Code:

  pccillin housecall
  [url="http://housecall.trendmicro.com/"]http://housecall.trendmicro.com/[/url]
  
  panda activescan
  [url="http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm"]http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm[/url]
  
  

if there is no result maybe it is better to reformat your harddisk and reinstall winxp

hope it helps....

 

First, you ONLY reformat as a Last Resort. It can shorten the life of the hard drive.
I'll assume you've cleaned the rollers on the mouse?
Go to the manufacturers website and look for an up to date driver.
Outlook is another problem. So many security holes in that thing!!
Defragging is a good thing. Also, once in awhile you may want to run a disk check.
In XP pro, open "My Computer" right click on the drive you want to check
then click the tools tab. Disk check is under error checking. IF you want to do C:
Your machine will do a restart to run it. This can take awhile depending on the size of the drive. (40 gig, 80 gig, etc...)

 

Is your slowness lmited to mouse controls? Try using the keyboard for everything, if that speeds you up then get a new mouse!

 

I've seemed to fix it for now, somehow in my mouse properties, the cursor acceleration was set to slow, so I set it on high and it's a temporary solution, though the computer still acts up a bit. I think it's just the need for me to kick myself in the ass and maintain it and clean it more often.