[at-l] Yet another computer question

[Gary Ticknor]

Go to the web site of your mouse manufacturer - they will probably have 
drivers for downloading.

- Greenbriar
> Okay, let's assume it's the drivers... is there an easier way to reset 
> them than rebooting the computer?
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Tom McGinnis <sloetoe at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:sloetoe at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Sometimes particular programs will screw with otherwise "normal"
>     drivers -- when my kids play some of the beefier war-shoot-'em-up
>     games, for example -- the re-write back to a standard system is
>     incomplete. (Hit ctrl-d and send an RPG at the next paragraph...)
>
>     So you're either playing games at work (Nooooooo!) or that darn
>     computer-graphics mongo program used to tap into the NSA (or is it
>     your CAD program to design a backpack carrying electric
>     vehicle???) or....
>
>     Well, it's something...
>
>     linux/amd-cpu/amd-graphics/no-problemo/toe
>
>
>     --- On Thu, 10/16/08, Mark Hudson <mvhudson at gmail.com
>     <mailto:mvhudson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > From: Mark Hudson <mvhudson at gmail.com <mailto:mvhudson at gmail.com>>
>     > Subject: Re: [at-l] Yet another computer question
>     > To: "Gary Ticknor" <garyticknor at verizon.net
>     <mailto:garyticknor at verizon.net>>, "at-l" <at-l at backcountry.net
>     <mailto:at-l at backcountry.net>>
>     > Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:12 PM
>     > Although I haven't used it in a long time, my wired
>     > mouse used to do the
>     > same thing. It doesn't do it all the time, just
>     > annoying when it does do
>     > it...
>     >
>     > Checking the drivers? I'll put it on the list...
>     >
>     > Thanks!
>     >
>     > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Gary Ticknor
>     > <garyticknor at verizon.net <mailto:garyticknor at verizon.net>>wrote:
>     >
>     > >  So switch mice and see if you can isolate the fault.
>     > Also, are you sure
>     > > you have the current driver?
>     > >
>     > > Nah, I think it's the mouse driver dropping a bit
>     > someplace...
>     > >
>     > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Gary Ticknor
>     > <garyticknor at verizon.net <mailto:garyticknor at verizon.net>>wrote:
>     > >
>     > >>  I suspect you need a new mouse :(
>     > >>
>     > >> - Greenbriar
>     > >>
>     > >>
>     > >> Mark Hudson wrote:
>     > >>
>     > >>  Don't ya love computer gremlins?
>     > >>
>     > >> Every so often my computer decides that a left
>     > mouse click is a right
>     > >> mouse click (ie, left click on an icon and instead
>     > of opening the program
>     > >> you get the whole menu with "open" at
>     > the top). At this point the right
>     > >> mouse click does nothing at all.
>     > >>
>     > >> Is there a way to reset things back to normal
>     > without rebooting the
>     > >> system?
>     > >>
>     > >> Thanks!
>     > >> skeeter
>
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