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Re: wireless mouse not working

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On 2/6/2017 12:02 PM, Johnny B Good wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 07:51:05 -0500, Paul wrote:
>
>> Norm X wrote:
>>> "mike" <ham789@netzero.net> wrote
>>>> I once had a wireless mouse that only worked on some systems.
>>>> Changing the battery fixed it.
>
>>> Yes. I put new batteries in the mouse after I checked the batteries
>>> which a volt meter. Strange, the red laser light never faltered. I
>>> guess RF consumes more energy.  Then I powered up the mouse for Win10
>>> to detect it. It was not detected. There might be some connection to
>>> down time for the mouse and driver replacement by Win10.
>
>> You can see that laundry-lists of sins are known for Win10.
>> I wouldn't believe some of them, unless I had experienced them first
>> hand. I think I've had a RealTek audio package installed separately, and
>> don't recollect the HID subsystem falling over on me.
>
>> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/finally-fix-windows-10-mouse-issues/
>
>> My problems just seem to be more random. Like, if I rebooted six times,
>> sometimes a mouse would disappear. I don't recollect my serial (RS232)
>> test mouse disappearing, ever. It always seems to work. I don't have a
>> PS/2 mouse port available,
>> but I'm pretty sure if I had one, it would always work too.
>> "If it's flaky, it's USB" is my motto.
>>
>  Excellent "Motto", Paul! :-)
>
>  I always thought it was extremely arrogant of Dell to assume that
> 'mission critical' interfaces such as the PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
> could be replaced by USB ports and totally done away with.
>
>  USB3 has the chance to become equal to the task of 'mission critical'
> reliability embodied by such interfaces as serial, parallel, PS/2, SCSI,
> IDE and SATA ports given enough time to reach maturity since, unlike its
> brain-dead predecessors (USB1 and USB2), it isn't relying on the CPU to
> shag itself out handling every tiny detail of the PIO task such cheap 'n'
> nasty interfaces heaped upon a poor defenceless CPU as a ruse to sell
> more powerful Intel CPUs to the consuming masses.

The lower voltage USB is far superior to PS/2 for both keyboard
and mouse control. Perhaps you'd also like to bring back serial
mice, single core processors, the AT PS and 8 bit ISA standard.

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  Re: wireless mouse not working mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2017-01-29 21:58 -0800
    Re: wireless mouse not working "Norm X" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-30 19:34 -0800
      Re: wireless mouse not working Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2017-01-31 07:51 -0500
        Re: wireless mouse not working Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2017-02-06 18:02 +0000
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              Re: wireless mouse not working Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2017-02-06 18:05 -0500
    Re: wireless mouse not working Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-01-31 11:06 -0500
      Re: wireless mouse not working mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2017-01-31 10:19 -0800
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