josbd
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Not posted in a long time, so apologies for having been a stranger.
I have an Acer Aspire 5920, prob about 18 months old. Bog standard issue, nothing outstanding.
I detest touchpads for many reasons, so ever since I have had the laptop, I have disabled the thing and been using a usb mouse. Again, nothing special. Wired, cost about a quid from ebay. Within the last week, the mouse began freezing. If unplugged and replugged it would work again. Dodgy mouse, I thought at first and tried another. Same situation. Dodgy usb port? No.
Did some googling and it seems this has been a problem for many for a good couple of years now. Various solutions have been suggested and worked for some (usually those with far more expensive meece than my wee lighting up job).
I have tried all of these suggestions and .... nothing makes a difference. It seems to be getting worse now, since often simply unplugging and replugging makes not a difference until a couple of hourse have passed. So I have to resort to reenabling the damn touchpad, which causes a lot of swearing and much annoyance.
Nothing has changed on this laptop in the last couple of weeks, it is not overheating, it's just peaceably getting on with it's job as usual.
If anyone can save what is remaining of my sanity, I would be very grateful. I have stupidly generously lent my pc to one in desperate needs, otherwise this thing would have been flown through the window by now!
Many thanks.
Jo
I have an Acer Aspire 5920, prob about 18 months old. Bog standard issue, nothing outstanding.
I detest touchpads for many reasons, so ever since I have had the laptop, I have disabled the thing and been using a usb mouse. Again, nothing special. Wired, cost about a quid from ebay. Within the last week, the mouse began freezing. If unplugged and replugged it would work again. Dodgy mouse, I thought at first and tried another. Same situation. Dodgy usb port? No.
Did some googling and it seems this has been a problem for many for a good couple of years now. Various solutions have been suggested and worked for some (usually those with far more expensive meece than my wee lighting up job).
I have tried all of these suggestions and .... nothing makes a difference. It seems to be getting worse now, since often simply unplugging and replugging makes not a difference until a couple of hourse have passed. So I have to resort to reenabling the damn touchpad, which causes a lot of swearing and much annoyance.
Nothing has changed on this laptop in the last couple of weeks, it is not overheating, it's just peaceably getting on with it's job as usual.
If anyone can save what is remaining of my sanity, I would be very grateful. I have stupidly generously lent my pc to one in desperate needs, otherwise this thing would have been flown through the window by now!
Many thanks.
Jo