Cleaning your mouse
 

I thought my mouse was a piece of shit.. then I took it apart and cleaned it real good with a q-tip and now this motherfuckers gliding around like an optical mouse.. it's like brand new again..

All these months of dealing with this piece of shit being all choppy.. and all it took was 10 minutes worth of cleaning.

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edit: THANK YOU VERY MUCH LIGHTNING FOR DONATING $25 TOWARDS ME GETTING A REAL MOUSE

my optical needs glasses.

next time soak it in water

or you just could have bought a optical mouse for a few bucks. I only have optical mouses these days. :winkwink:

That's how I fucked my first one up.. spilled a glass of tea on it :(

You wanna donate those few bucks? Let me know and i'll give you my paypal address :Graucho

Hey Bro, I'm feeling a bit in the Holiday mood right now, and a decent optical mouse with the cool red lighted bottom is only like 20.00 bucks, shoot me your paypal and ill send you the$$ for one:winkwink: No this is not a joke either.

How nice and generous! :thumbsup

got icq? 138286046 is me

You're in the bizz and you can't afford a good mouse to work with??

Signature design theif!!

Just kidding.. you owe me $10 though..

Hmph. Stealing is someone offerring and giving you it? :1orglaugh

I make TGP galleries.. thats about it.. I don't make much... but I'm trying to learn more, so I can work more, so in the end, I can make more.

I know. I'm programming for alot of guys on the different boards. Just for the fun I'm posting galleries too. I'm making the biggest part of my money with my auto submitter now :)

Your signature says 'scrips'... probably mean 'scripts'? :)

Lightning just donated $25 towards me getting a new mouse.. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Thank you :winkwink:

Thanx man. I didn't noticed that there was a spelling error. Corrected it right away :)

wow, I have a picture tube going out on my 50" Magnavox, so a new plasma flat screen would be pretty cool :Graucho

No problem at all bro, glad I could help a good webmaster out:winkwink:

I'm cleaning my PlayStation 1

Donation anyone?

A PSX?? You should have a PS2. I bet there's someone out there that donates enough for a PS2 :winkwink:

My left button on my Logitec stated messing up... So I got my 1 on my Microsoft 1's out.... I really like the scroll wheel on the Logitec so I took it apart switched the little switches put the left 1 under the scroll wheel (which I don't use to click with).. 3 stores and couldn't find 1 that had the feel of the Logitec wheel... So I fixed the dam thing.

Well my optical recently died on me, so i've had to go back to using the only mouse I have, a 2 button serial from my old p100 :(

same here... logitech 4 button

haha

I have maybe 6 keyboards kicking around ... and one that happens to be my absolute favorite is believe it or not a COMPAQ ...

The keys are all in the correct places (I love KEYTRONIC keyboards' feel ... but cannot stand the single width delete key with the backslash beside it ... every time I go to delete something, I add backslashes to it !! :feels-hot

Anyways ... this old COMPAQ keboard was my favorite one I've owned yet, but was dirty as hell both under the keys as well as the sides of the keys were caked with crud ! (yeah insert stupid jokes here ...) :eek7

I considered just going to best buy and buying a new Logitech Navigator for $25 ... but was in an ambitious mood, so I took off ALL the keys from this keyboard, used a couple dozen Q-tips and some windex ... and cleaned the entire board and all the keys ... dried them all off, and reassembled it ... it took me maybe an hour ... but it looks and feels like brand new again !!!

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I guess I'll have to wait another 6 months for a new Logitech Navigator ... maybe by then they will have better toys for a good price ...

(just a follow up .... 2 months ago I bought a keyboard online that somebody posted here that had a touchscreen under the space bar .... it took FOREVER to get here ... and I used it for maybe 5 days but did not like it, so I sent it back ...)

:thumbsup LIGHTNING :thumbsup

For $25 he gets a good guy rep. Wheap and worth every penny.

Is an optical mouse one of those cordless ones? Just kitted out the new office and we all have them, AWESOME except the batteries do not last that long.

LOL! Mine might as well have the cord glued in - the rechargeable batteries supplied with it are shite!

Shit am I the only one using a trackball here? I switched a few years back and will NEVER use a mouse again

I used to hate optical mice until I got a logitec one. The M$ ones just felt too big for my hand, but these ones sit just right.

My fave mouse of all time though is still a old fashioned ball one - Logitec Wheelman + - best mouse of all bloody time.

i'm circumsized, my mouse doesn't need to be cleaned that often.

a good tongue bath is nice though.......maybe i should get out the peanut butter and call my dog! :Graucho

Actually a funn thing is, a friend of mine bought a MS mouse a while back, regular with a mouseball. I should point out that this guy is a supposed PC Technician, A+ certified, MCSE, all that crap. After a few months, it was choppy and he was freaking out. He had an extended warranty on it with the store (Future Shop) so he brought it back and complained. They didn't have that mouse, so they gave him an optical mouse. He's all happy and I asked him "Wow, even after you cleaned the mouse it was still choppy?" and he goes "You can clean a mouse?"

I laughed so damn hard that the store tech didn't even think of checking that.

Btw, Lightning, you now have good karma vibe. Can oyu paypal me some $$$ for a new Toshiba laptop? :winkwink:

What? Your mouse opens up? Mine just has some weird red glowing light under it.

Logitech Trackman Vista here, unbelieveable what I have done to it over the years to keep it working, but I would not use a mouse again to save my life . . . . . well, maybe to save my life, but that would be it

optical mice are great if you're the kind of person that spills beer or coffee allover your mousemat at least once a week