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henrypie:
Hi friends...
Here's my dilemma: my husband is in Germany for almost two weeks and he took the laptop with him.  The laptop is "my" computer, usually.  I'm sittin here at the big ol regular computer, and the mouse is dead, and because he's a wireless-mouse geek, and a geek in general, I feel a little less able to deal than if it were a regular mouse, and also there are about thirty cords (I'm really not exaggerating) going from one place to another back there (BACK THERE -- I'm so painfully not that savvy).  I gnashed teeth and rent garments till I realized I could open a browser with a shortcut button and then tab my way around (VERY annoying but better than nothing).  We missed each other's calls today and he can't depend on being able to read email so I haven't been able to tell him that he left his wife with a bum mouse JUST when she so so needs it.  Sort of needs it.  Really really wants it.

It's not the mouse's battery; I plucked that out with a pencil (the pencil point broke and fell down a hole in there and is now rattling around in the mouse body -- but I'm not worried about that) and tried a fresh one; and besides it was a sudden, not slow, death.  Anyone got any ideas?  And like, hi, by the way.  My friends.

Bye bye,
Sarah

Jeff Wrangler:
Oh, Sarah,
I'm so sorry! I'm so untechnologically oriented myself that I can't answer your vexing, silly cry for help--which is neither vexing nor silly, btw--but you have my sympathy. I feel your pain.
Good luck finding help!
Jeff

henrypie:
Thanks anyway Jeff.  I'm going to bed.  No mouse-hopes till tomorrow.
By the way are you Philadelphia or Hoboken?
Sssss

Surf:

--- Quote from: henrypie on April 01, 2006, 01:51:34 am ---Hi friends...
Here's my dilemma: my husband is in Germany for almost two weeks and he took the laptop with him.  The laptop is "my" computer, usually.  I'm sittin here at the big ol regular computer, and the mouse is dead, and because he's a wireless-mouse geek, and a geek in general, I feel a little less able to deal than if it were a regular mouse, and also there are about thirty cords (I'm really not exaggerating) going from one place to another back there (BACK THERE -- I'm so painfully not that savvy).  I gnashed teeth and rent garments till I realized I could open a browser with a shortcut button and then tab my way around (VERY annoying but better than nothing).  We missed each other's calls today and he can't depend on being able to read email so I haven't been able to tell him that he left his wife with a bum mouse JUST when she so so needs it.  Sort of needs it.  Really really wants it.

It's not the mouse's battery; I plucked that out with a pencil (the pencil point broke and fell down a hole in there and is now rattling around in the mouse body -- but I'm not worried about that) and tried a fresh one; and besides it was a sudden, not slow, death.  Anyone got any ideas?  And like, hi, by the way.  My friends.

Bye bye,
Sarah

--- End quote ---

Did you reboot?  With Winblows machines especially this is often a cure-all, but not always.  If all else fails, go buy a cheap USB mouse (logitech will work) and plug it in an open USB port.  If XP (and I assume  you're running XP) recognizes it, which it surprisingly usually does, you're in business.  If not, reboot again and the mouse should be recognized and proper drivers initiated.  If you are in fact on a Mac, let me know, Macs are where I'm at.

Ellemeno:
Philadelphia.

O tarte d'henri, at least you are figuring out ways around it.  Yesterday afternoon the wifi in our house stopped, and in a single instant my experience went from F & M (full and meaningful, to quote Flashieloo) to me just sitting hunched over a piece of plastic E & M (empty and meaningless, again from Flash) technology.  

Half an hour later, just as inexplicably, it started working again.  In that short/long time, I got some laundry done, cleaned the kitchen, and a couple of other small things that haven't been getting as done in the last few F & M months with you all.

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