Prombles with the AP's PC:

The mouse (standard PS2) intermitttently stops responding. Pointer
won't move, clicks don't do anything. I can sometimes get "phantom"
mouse clicks (guess where the invisible pointer is and click
hopefully). I've swapped it for a known good USB one, without
improvement. And the PS2 is working fine on this machine.

System is XP Home, SP2. half a gig of RAM.

As the problems only started after he hooked up to Orange ADSL I'm
inclined to think it's some crap program that the install disk put on.
I've uninstalled the Orange toolbar and the router program (I can
access that from a browser window). I've run Regcleaner to get rid of
unwanted registry entries.

What now?

(changing OS is not really an option)

Tim Hall wrote:
[..]
> As the problems only started after he hooked up to Orange ADSL I'm
> inclined to think it's some crap program that the install disk put on.
> I've uninstalled the Orange toolbar and the router program (I can
> access that from a browser window). I've run Regcleaner to get rid of
> unwanted registry entries.
>
> What now?
>
> (changing OS is not really an option)
>
Quick & easy things to try. Change the mouse pointer scheme in control
panel if that's possible. The one in use may be corrupt.

Or use a system restore point if one's available to restore the state
before the Orange software was installed.

The message <lp73c4pu1vgq3f4duoc4eub2pgdc0b9eri>
from Tim Hall <timhall> contains these words:

> What now?

Dunno, but mine recently started doing the same - mouse locks for
several seconds at a time. There's no evidence of disc activity or net
traffic while it happens - just locks and comes back in a bit.

In article <313030303432373948C1B34767>,
Guy King <guy.king> wrote:
>The message <lp73c4pu1vgq3f4duoc4eub2pgdc0b9eri>
>from Tim Hall <timhall> contains these words:
>
>> What now?
>
>Dunno, but mine recently started doing the same - mouse locks for
>several seconds at a time. There's no evidence of disc activity or net
>traffic while it happens - just locks and comes back in a bit.

Mebbe it's busy on a botnet?

In message <lp73c4pu1vgq3f4duoc4eub2pgdc0b9eri>, Tim Hall
<timhall> writes
>Prombles with the AP's PC:
>
>The mouse (standard PS2) intermitttently stops responding. Pointer
>won't move, clicks don't do anything. I can sometimes get "phantom"
>mouse clicks (guess where the invisible pointer is and click
>hopefully). I've swapped it for a known good USB one, without
>improvement. And the PS2 is working fine on this machine.

Does the keyboard lock up at the same time?

The message <g9s917$93s$3>
from Carl LHS Williams <ArK7prciXtWGb2qn> contains these words:

> >Dunno, but mine recently started doing the same - mouse locks for
> >several seconds at a time. There's no evidence of disc activity or net
> >traffic while it happens - just locks and comes back in a bit.

> Mebbe it's busy on a botnet?

That's why I mentioned that there's no net traffic when it happens.

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:31:35 +0100, Guy King <guy.king>
wrote and included this (or some of this):

>The message <lp73c4pu1vgq3f4duoc4eub2pgdc0b9eri>
>from Tim Hall <timhall> contains these words:
>
>> What now?
>
>Dunno, but mine recently started doing the same - mouse locks for
>several seconds at a time. There's no evidence of disc activity or net
>traffic while it happens - just locks and comes back in a bit.

Catalepsy?

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Tim Hall said:
[..]
> I've uninstalled the Orange toolbar and the router program (I can
> access that from a browser window). I've run Regcleaner to get rid of
> unwanted registry entries.
>
> What now?
>
> (changing OS is not really an option)
>>
Sounds liek somethign in the ADSL is nickign the interrupts. In the days
before windows we'd have told one or t'other to use a different IRQ but
I dunno if you can now!

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Tim Hall said:
[..]
> I've uninstalled the Orange toolbar and the router program (I can
> access that from a browser window). I've run Regcleaner to get rid of
> unwanted registry entries.
>
> What now?
>
> (changing OS is not really an option)
>>
Half a gig's about the min for XP, the ADSL may be causing a lot of
paging, if you can disabkle it wiothout uninstallign, see if that makes
the troubel go away.

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:06:05 +0100, Bernard Peek <bap$>
wrote:

>In message <lp73c4pu1vgq3f4duoc4eub2pgdc0b9eri>, Tim Hall
><timhall> writes
>>Prombles with the AP's PC:
>>
>>The mouse (standard PS2) intermitttently stops responding. Pointer
>>won't move, clicks don't do anything. I can sometimes get "phantom"
>>mouse clicks (guess where the invisible pointer is and click
>>hopefully). I've swapped it for a known good USB one, without
>>improvement. And the PS2 is working fine on this machine.
>
>Does the keyboard lock up at the same time?

No. I can navigate around with a selection of keyboard strokes (alt
this, tab, arrows ect ect).

The message <36c3c4lbbuht3hvvole136s7bqebfk2072>
from ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°² <ron> contains these words:

> >Dunno, but mine recently started doing the same - mouse locks for
> >several seconds at a time. There's no evidence of disc activity or net
> >traffic while it happens - just locks and comes back in a bit.

> Catalepsy?

Nah, it's Squid's keyboard the cat sits on, not mine.

Guy King said:
> The message <36c3c4lbbuht3hvvole136s7bqebfk2072>
> from ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°² <ron> contains these words:
>
>> >Dunno, but mine recently started doing the same - mouse locks for
>> >several seconds at a time. There's no evidence of disc activity or net
>> >traffic while it happens - just locks and comes back in a bit.
>
>> Catalepsy?
>
> Nah, it's Squid's keyboard the cat sits on, not mine.

Mousealepsy, then.

In article <MPG.232bc28a1aa755f98a598>, Carlton
Miniott generously decided to share with us..

> Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Tim Hall said:
> Half a gig's about the min for XP, the ADSL may be causing a lot of
> paging, if you can disabkle it wiothout uninstallign, see if that makes
> the troubel go away.

First move.. CTRL-ALT-DEL and see what's running innit..

In article <313030303432373948C1BC9125>,
Guy King <guy.king> wrote:
>The message <g9s917$93s$3>
>from Carl LHS Williams <ArK7prciXtWGb2qn> contains these words:
>
>> >Dunno, but mine recently started doing the same - mouse locks for
>> >several seconds at a time. There's no evidence of disc activity or net
>> >traffic while it happens - just locks and comes back in a bit.
>
>> Mebbe it's busy on a botnet?
>
>That's why I mentioned that there's no net traffic when it happens.

Ah. managed to totally fail to notice that bit, sorry...

"Tim Hall" <timhall> wrote in message
news:9eri
[..]
> access that from a browser window). I've run Regcleaner to get rid of
> unwanted registry entries.
>
> What now?
>
> (changing OS is not really an option)
>> --
> Tim

I used to go through two or three meece every year. Symptoms were as
described. Sometimes it was muck on the little rollers and sometimes the
lead cracked just inside the mouse. They were only three or four quid so I
didn't expect much else. Right now I'm using a ten-year-old Compaq mouse
from an old 486. It's been working for so long that I suspect that build
quality must have been better ten years ago.

KC