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So I have one of those nifty Microsoft Borg mice things (the one with the red diode underneath and gray on top, the one that only fits big hands.)
Sure, I no longer need to clean the roller ball, but now I have to clean the daft little rubber pads on the bottom every week. They get gummed up quicker than the mouse ball used to. There are four of them, one in each corner.
What are they for? Can I rip them off and still use the damned thing?
Do other optical mice have this problem?
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge
Tim Smith wrote:
Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America),
peterchen wrote:
We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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My logitek chordless optical doesn't, but the M$ one I bought for work does. I clean it every month or so - who cares if it's dirty ? It doesn't stop the mouse from working.
Christian
The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little.
And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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Christian Graus wrote:
who cares if it's dirty ? It doesn't stop the mouse from working.
When I pay R900 for a bloody mouse (all the mice I had before cost max R60) I expect it to be perfection personified. I expect it to move for me with just a glance 
I was just a bit puzzled, especially now as you say the Logitek does not do the same thing. Thanks for confirming.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge
Tim Smith wrote:
Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America),
peterchen wrote:
We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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I've got the MS Intellimouse with Intellieye, and it has the same problem. I just give the mouse a good push along a clean sheet of paper and all the gunk comes off.
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I have the reverse problem, the pads are leaving "gunk" on my desk surface!
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I have the Borg Mouse too... actually, I have two - one at work, one at home.
The one at work gums up my desk - I have to get a warm cloth to wash the desk clean.
The one at home gums up the pads... and I think I'm soon going to just rip the suckers off - I can't see a good reason to leave them there if they are going to constantly get all gummed up! Does anyone recommend not removing them for any reason?
: Dean 'Karnatos' Michaud
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Microsoft Optical USB mouse, now my mouse is free of fuzz foreever 
Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer
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Norm Almond wrote:
Microsoft Optical USB mouse, now my mouse is free of fuzz foreever
What about the four rubber pads underneath? Don't they get covered in grime very quickly?
Mine sure does.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge
Tim Smith wrote:
Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America),
peterchen wrote:
We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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Dont use a mousemat , and dont eat at your desk.
Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
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Andrew Torrance wrote:
Dont use a mousemat
I don't.
Andrew Torrance wrote:
and dont eat at your desk
How will I survive if I do not eat at my desk?!?! 
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge
Tim Smith wrote:
Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America),
peterchen wrote:
We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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Paul Watson wrote:
How will I survive if I do not eat at my desk?!?!
Havn't you heard of of "Intravenous" fluid injection? 
Its usually only for those on hunger strike.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.
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...when it becomes so gummed up you've got to lean on it to get it to move... 
---Shog9---
Extreme ways are back again, extreme places i didn't know
I broke everything new again, everything that i'd owned -- Moby, Extreme ways
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Maybe I don't leave it as long as you, but yeah I clean mine when it starts causing me problems.
What I can't understand, is "why don't mice come with cleaning sticks or something ?"
I keep a pair of tweezers handy to clean it anyhow.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
More about me
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Colin Davies wrote:
I keep a pair of tweezers handy to clean it anyhow.
I'm partial to a good pencil eraser for cleaning the rollers. But i haven't found anything i really like for the ball yet; rubbing alcohol works ok, but i'm not sure what it'll do to the rubber 
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A closed mouth gathers no foot. --Shog9 --
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A 'Mouse' obviously is most man handled device of any computer system (along with the keyboard).
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Onkar Singh wrote:
A 'Mouse' obviously is most man handled device of any computer system (along with the keyboard).
That may have been true before the pron industry found out about the internet...
I had to say it before someone beat me to it
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge
Tim Smith wrote:
Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America),
peterchen wrote:
We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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