Wireless Mouse Jerking

Good day to all

I bought a Microsoft wireless mobile mouse 3500 recently.

At first I used it on my old notebook PC (Asus K43SV, Intel i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz, 4.00GB RAM, Hitachi HD, 64-bit Win 7 Home Premium, bought in Jan 2011). The cursor jerked erratically when the mouse was moved.

Knowing that the notebook had become noticeably slow I moved the Microsoft mouse to use it on my desktop (Intel i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz, 8.00GB RAM, 128GB SanDisk SSD, 64-bit Win 7 Pro) and moved the old Logitech M215 to the laptop.

Everything is fine with the Logitech M215 on the laptop. The Microsoft 3500 still jerks on the desktop but to a lesser extent. I changed the desktop theme from Aero to Win 7 Basic. It improved but still not as smooth as I wld expect.

On both the laptop & the desktop I had installed for the mouse the Microsoft driver 64bit ENG_10.4.0 downloaded from Microsoft site.

May Know what else can I do?

Wld it help if I set the mouse operation to higher priority? How do I do that?

Thank you all!

Henry

Hello LimHenry, welcome to the Forum,

LimHenry said:

Good day to all

May Know what else can I do?

Wld it help if I set the mouse operation to higher priority? How do I do that?

Thank you all!

Henry

You can re-charge the batteries on the mouse, see if that there is a difference.

Or you can go into Mouse Properties, and adjust the Pointer Speed.

To adjust the pointer speed:

1. In Start Menu, type "mouse" and press enter.
2. When "Mouse Properties" Window opens, click on "Pointer Options" Tab
3. Click "Apply" to test your new mouse settings.

Some mouses need a specific surface to run properly.
Most of them don't work properly over glass and work well over a opaque paper or a mouse pad.

Thank you for advice.

I changed the pointer speed slower. It seems to help. Will see how it goes down the road.

iko22 said:

Hello LimHenry, welcome to the Forum,



You can re-charge the batteries on the mouse, see if that there is a difference.

Or you can go into Mouse Properties, and adjust the Pointer Speed.

To adjust the pointer speed:

1. In Start Menu, type "mouse" and press enter.
2. When "Mouse Properties" Window opens, click on "Pointer Options" Tab
3. Click "Apply" to test your new mouse settings.

Thank you for response. Yes, I knew that a mouse does not work over glass. I use it on white paper with words.

Megahertz07 said:

Some mouses need a specific surface to run properly.
Most of them don't work properly over glass and work well over a opaque paper or a mouse pad.

Try a blank white paper or a single color mouse pad.

Thank you.

But this differs from what I knew. My understanding is that a mouse pad shd contain patterns (regular or random, including observable texture) that make it easy for the mouse to detect motion / movement + direction & extent of motion / movement. Also, we shd avoid same color as the light (e.g. red). No?

Megahertz07 said:

Try a blank white paper or a single color mouse pad.

Surfaces with photos or different colors reflects the beam on a different manner making the pointer to jump.

My mouse pad has a picture of a beach with trees, clouds, water, sand, etc. and my mouse pointer doesn't jump. In fact, I can use it on any surface (didn't try glass) without a problem. Just passing on my experience.

My mouse runs well even on a glass surface. Most of them don't.
Have seen many that requires a single color surface to work properly.
I'm also just passing on my experience.

Megahertz07 said:

Some mouses need a specific surface to run properly.
Most of them don't work properly over glass and work well over a opaque paper or a mouse pad.