Help with Mighty Mouse, Please!

[PaperLily]

I am about to throw my mouse through the window! It works perfectly normal, except it will not scroll down a page anymore. It did this once before but I can't remember what I did to fix it.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[pacfam]

Hi Paperlily! I had this problem as well. I saw on the Apple message boards that evidently this is a common problem. One of the suggestions is to turn the mouse upside down and firmly roll the roller ball around. Do it pretty hard. This sometimes worked for me. I eventually changed over to a wireless mouse. Check the Apple message boards for "scrolling problems". Hope this helps.

[PaperLily]

Ah-ha! That did it. Thank you! I've been considering switching to a wireless mouse. It's just at the bottom of my "wants" list right now. Thanks again!

[Wendy]

Hi Paper Lily ...

It happens when the little ball thing gets dirty, its the grease from your fingers that does it ... I just use a bit of screen cleaner on mine :eek:

... and by the way the wireless mouse is just the same but I really love it and its far better on batteries than the previous version but its still better to use rechargeables :)

Wendy

[Meta4]

I end up disembowelling my mouse once every 2 months or so and cleaning the ball, as well as cleaning the 4 stupidly small rollers that the ball sits on. I found some site showing how to do it. Once you've managed to remove the grey oval ring that the mouse actually sits on, it's fairly easy.

[Sergio]

Hello everyone,
I just wanted to say how much I love my wireless mouse. I did have a problem with the first one, but tech support sent me out a new one next day air. I love Mac support! :D

[Bob32]

My iMac is 2-1/2 years old. I called Apple and complained about the Mighty Mouse scrolling very poorly for some time in spite of my attempts to clean the scroller ball. They promptly sent me a new Mighty Mouse at no charge, the only stipulation being that I had to send back the old MM. The new MM works well. Lesson learned: I should have complained sooner.

Bob

[Wendy]

Apple are really good when you have problems ... they did the same for me when the wire on a old mouse came loose :)

Wendy

[Tom M]

IMO the MM is junk.:cool:
Get a good third party mouse.

[Wendy]

Tom ...

Something has happened to your signature ... part of it seems now to be hidden ??

Wendy

[Tom M]

Hi Wendy.

Not seeing that problem.

[Wendy]

Hi Tom ...

I sent you a message :)

Wendy

[rgar98]

Throw the MM out the window and get a Logitech M555b Bluetooth mouse(if you have a Bluetooth enabled iMac).

The track ball on the MM is susceptible to getting "gunked up" very easily. Check out all the You Tubes videos dealing with this problem.

Rich