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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I like the Logitech Marble Mouse instead. It's a trackball, but that's what they name it. Optical, I guess, cuz there are dots all over the ball. And the ball lifts up very simply, when you want to wipe the dust from around the three contacts.
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I have a Logitech USB optical mouse. I used to use a Logitech 3 button PS/2 mouse, but it finally died. I use the Logitech instead of the generic USB mouse because I've gotten used to the convenience of a scroll wheel, but can program the scroll wheel to issue a double click if pressed. I got used to that with the three button mouse, and now have a hard time living without it.
I was amused by the various ball cleaning recommendations for ball mice, as it was never the ball itself that needed cleaning: it was the three interior wheels that translated mouse motion to signals sent to the PC. Those would pick up random crud in use, and are a pain to clean.
The only problem with the Logitech USB mouse is that Windows periodically loses track of the fact that it exists, and I must unplug it and plug it back in again to get it recognized. The problem was lessened but not eliminated by a driver update. Have to go check for another...
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Dennis