Mighty Mouse - cannot click

I am dead in the water. I am using a Dell to post this, because my Might Mouse, normally a bit finicky and in need of regular cleaning, suddenly does not work. No clicking. No moving the cursor, which is now invisible. What on earth can I do?

I would definitely get a new Mighty Mouse. I got a new one through AppleCare Support as it was making 'grinding' noises when I clicked and failed to work at times as it was sticking. The new one works as advertised! I had reservations putting it against my credit card but I was quickly reimbursed by Apple once they got the defective one back.

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  • Mighty Mouse Random Clicking

    OK, so the search function is disabled until tomorrow, so please don't flame me for not searching...
    Starting this morning, my mighty mouse (wired) started clicking (second button clicking, I think) randomly, preventing me essentially from using it as it would continuously click while I tried to work, pushing my current application into the background. Am using a wireless Microsoft mouse as a backup currently.
    I have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the mouse numerous times, and have even unplugged and replugged the power supply (UPS) in case there was some kind of "lost ground" issue.
    I am a new iMac user about to drop my Windows machine altogether, and this clicking problem is driving me crazy! Any suggestions?

    I might have found the solution to your problem.
    I just purchased an iMac for a friend, and was telling them how Mac's are a lot better than PC's. We removed his old PC, threw it aside and set-up his new Mac. When it was all set-up the mouse started to do this crazy clicking and entering Exposé randomly, also the right click function would not work.
    My friend was not impressed with his first experience with Mac.
    Anyway, we called Applecare to no avail, they didn't have a clue of what was happening. I then took the whole computer back to the store and they set it up at their shop to test it and it worked perfectly. I stood there scratching my head. I took the computer to my place and it worked perfectly there all day.
    Later I took it back to my friends house and guess what? They mouse is going all crazy again.
    We tried setting it up in different rooms in his house, also to no avail.
    At this point we where going to return the whole system and get another one. Then I decided to use trusty Google search and I found this article in some forum www.macintouch.com/readerreports/mightymouse/topic4048.html I scrolled down and read many others with the same problem and what they did to solve the problem.
    From the forum I gathered that there is a design flaw in the mouse that Apple doesn't know about. It makes the mouse extremely sensitive to your body's static electricity because it doesn't have proper grounding. That is why your Microsoft mouse works and the Mighty Mouse doesn't. I further gathered that the reason it worked at my house and not at my friends is probably due to bad earth connection at his house or to some appliance interfering with the static in the air.
    The bad earth connection theory was pretty much proved by people stating that when they touched the metal case or the metal keyboard with one hand, and using the mouse with the other, the erratic behaviour would stop. Why? because you are earthing the static in your body through the metal on the iMac. Try it yourself, it should work.
    There are 2 solutions to this:
    1. Get an qualified electrician to come to your house and check that the earth is 100% at your house.
    2. Get another mouse until Apple acknowledge the problem and fix it in their next batch of Mighty Mouse.
    I didn't want to spend big buck to get an electrician to check the whole house, so I am opting for the second solution and taking the wired mouse that came with the iMac and swapping it for and unwired version, hopefully that will solve the problem. I'm going into the shop today, I will let you know how I went.
    Sorry for the long response, but the more info you are armed with the better a fight you have to get Apple to solve the problem at minimum cost to you.
    I hope this helps you

  • Mighty Mouse Right Click

    Hi,
    I have a Mighty Wireless Mouse, and a Wireless Keyboard.
    1.) If I would like to keep the track wheel button as the dashboard, can I create a secondary mouse button, or a right click? I know Ctrl-click will be a right click most of the time, but I have a game, where a right click is very useful, but Ctrl-click doesn't work.
    2.) Is the main part of the Mighty Mouse just one button, or can I set a primary and secondary on the left and right half of the mouse.
    Any advise?
    ~Christoph

    Right. I am using the track-wheel button as dashboard, which I would like to keep. The secondary button doesn't seem to work at first. I told system prefs to put the right button as the secondary button, but after a restart, it is now working. I don't know why I had to restart, but it is now working.
    Thanks for the help, though
    Sorry none of you get the nice, green star
    ~Christoph

  • Mighty mouse right click not working...

    Hi,
    I've recently bought my macbook pro in the summer along with a wireless mighty mouse. after working on the computer a while, the right click function stops working! i tried installing the software that comes with the mouse but i get the same results...
    any suggestions?
    thanks in advance!

    . Follow the steps for disassembling the MM on many of the web sites until you have the upper shell separated from the base. I found removing the bottom grey ring the easiest method.
    2. Inside the upper shell you will see the plastic backed carbon traces used to detect the finger locations. In the centre of the upper shell is also a copper strip adhered to the shell. The plastic traces and the copper shim have a connection through a carbon dot on the shell where there are two holes next to a black carbon dot. I found that there were two issues with my MM that may have caused my issues. The first was that the plastic detectors were not fully adhered and flat on the inner shell. Then I found that the small carbon button which contacts the copper was not fully pressed down. I ran my finger over the entire internal surface of the shell to press down the adhesive bonded parts and then reassembled the mouse.
    3. Instead of gluing the bottom grey ring back on the mouse, fit it in place with small sections of 3M invisible tape, over the grey ring and upper case, just in case things go awry again. If they're small enough, you won't see them when the mouse in operation and the case remains securely closed. Once you are sure you have no more problems then you can add a dab or two of superglue to permanently close the case at a later date or still have access to clean the scroll mechanism at a later time as well.
    The other outcome might be that my disassembly and reassmbly reseated a poorly contacting cable(s) from the base the the upper shell. Either way, I have a fully functioning right click again in all situations. I have not had to remove the batteries in the mouse for over a week now whereas the power reset was becoming an hourly occurrence previously.

  • Wireless Mighty Mouse right click not responding

    I was happily using Final cut Pro but noticed that the right click on the mighty mouse wasn't working. I checked my settings of the mouse and confirmed that 'secondary button' was selected, but no right click was picked up in any application.
    Rebooted Mac with no effect. Switched right button to 'Expose' but that wouldn't work either.
    Solution: Took batteries out of mouse and reinserted. All now resolved.

    Have you shut down (powered off) the Mac and restarted since this problem occurred? Have you turned OFF Bluetooth and turned it back ON? Have you checked the strength of the two batteries in the mouse?
    The buttons not working does not sound like a typical cleaning or hardware issue (although the scroll ball not scrolling is probably a cleaning issue). It may be a software problem.
    First, go to System Preferences +Keyboard & Mouse+ pane Mouse tab, and make some changes to the settings of the buttons that do not work. Change them any to a different setting. See if each change takes effect. If it does, change it back to the way it was before. This will rewrite the preference settings, and hopefully get those buttons working again.
    I would also do the usual general trouble-shooting actions. Run Disk Utility and use the +Repair Disk Permissions+ routine. Then restart using the reset PRAM command.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

  • Bluetooth Mighty Mouse - right click works for a while and then stops...

    I recently bought a wireless Mighty Mouse, installed all the supplied software and paired it with my Macbook Pro. I've set up the right click as Secondary button and have been using it without any problems.
    Then recently I've noticed that after using it for a while (in general applications like Aperture, Firefox etc), the right click will perform a Primary (left) click instead. Even if I take my hand completely off the mouse and click on the right side, it will perform a left click function. If I switch the Mighty Mouse off and back on, it starts to work normally again.
    Is this a general issue with these mice? Or is mine just faulty? I can't see that it's a hardware fault as it returns to normal when I turn off/on the mouse. Any ideas?
    Thanks in advance.

    My new MacBook Pro and Wireless MM just arrived Friday and I spent Saturday transferring files from my PB G4 and installing Parallels/WinXP.
    My Mighty Mouse worked fine initially, but then the Right Click (Secondary) reverted to Left Click (Primary). I reversed the settings to a "Left-handed" setup, the settings stuck. But the right button would not hold a Secondary setting.
    I then paired the PB G4's Wireless Mighty Mouse (that I've had for several months) with the MacBook Pro - same issue surfaced. Both mice work consistently as represented with the PowerBook AND my IOGear bluetooth mouse works perfectly with both the PB and MBP (although the Mouse Preference Pane that comes up for the IOGear mouse is a reduced feature set that does not allow any additional button programning.)
    I think it's a Preference Pane code issue. If the others who have posted here have ALSO installed Parallels, then the Parallels tools may be creating conflicts.
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  • Mighty Mouse Extra Clicks

    This might be a hardware problem but whenever I place my fingers on my Mighty Mouse, it would trigger the Button 4 action, and make a little click from the internal speaker, as if I had used the side buttons. This makes things incredibly hard to use (button 4 is mapped to Dashboard) since anytime I want to work with the mouse, I'd have Dashboard constantly coming in and out. I found that turning that button off will stop the clicking and triggering, but now means that I can't use that button anymore. Turning the action off, then on temporarily fixes the problem for about an hour and rebooting the computer did nothing to help.
    Suggestions as to what might be causing this and how to fix it?

    I have had the same problem.
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=359574&tstart=0
    For the first few weeks it happened all the time. Now it is not happening at all. An Apple support tech called me back today saying that someone else had had the same problem and had found that the problem was due to some sort of electrical interference. When the other person move his iMac into another room, the problem disappeared.
    At the same time I updated my system to 10.4.5. Maybe that solved the problem. If you haven't updated to 10.4.5 you might try that. And try moving the iMac to a different location and moving the monitor up and down as I did (see link above).
    The electrical interference makes a little since since it is a capacitor switch iirc.
    Good Luck,
    Michael
    Dual 2 GHz PPC G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

  • Mighty mouse double click

    How do I get my mighty mouse to double-click? Throught System Preferences, I have the the left side of the mouse as the primary button, the scroll button as dashboard and the right side as secondary button. I have the double-click speed set as fast, yet I can not get the mouse to select text by manually double clicking the primary button. Any suggestions? I've only had the mouse for 5 weeks, and have yet to get it to double-click.

    Should work fine, try decreasing the double click speed, and be careful not to push the right half of the mouse.

  • How to reconfigure mighty mouse center click for Solid Edge V20

    I'm trying to reconfigure my mighty mouse to center click rotate or similar to windows center click instead of how its configured in SL. I'm running XP in a VM. Any ideas? Thanks.

    Hello csmitty,
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  • Issues Mighty Mouse - multiple clicking before responding

    Dear ALL,
    I have a issue with the Mighty Mouse (wired).
    I need 3 tot 4 times to click before the mouse response, this is very irritating.
    Is there any .plist file I can trash ... I think that a corrupted file related to the Mighty Mouse is corrupted.
    Thank you for responding ...
    Dimaxum

    Hi,
    Also after connecting an MS mouse and using this for a while ... than again connecting the Mighty Mouse back again I see an big difference now in using the original mouse.
    Strange ... more to this I can not say.
    Dimaxum

  • I want to program my mighty mouse ball click button

    How can I set up my Mighty Mouse ball button to open a URL in a new tab. I don't know how to write an Applescript to do this, or is there another way. Apple didn't make this an option in the system preferences.
    Thanks for any help,
    Jeff

    Jeffrey Hughes1 wrote:
    How can I set up my Mighty Mouse ball button to open a URL in a new tab. I don't know how to write an Applescript to do this, or is there another way. Apple didn't make this an option in the system preferences.
    Thanks for any help,
    Jeff
    Welcome to the Apple boards:
    Since there are millions of possibilities, and everyone wants a button to do their favorite action, you should learn to write or modify an apple script and customize your mouse yourself. It's educational and fun.
    If you select "Other" for the button action, you will be in the script folder, which is where Apple wants you to be. If you look, you will see thousands of actions you can assign to your button.
    If you open one of these scripts manually (they are in the system library folder) and read it you will see how easy it is to modify or create one.
    All you are looking for is to assign the key combination "Apple-T" to the button, correct?
    You can also create a script with Automator which is even simpler. And just as much fun.
    Message was edited by: nerowolfe

  • Mighty Mouse wheel click used as web browser backup

    Is it possible to configure the mouse wheel click to use it as the web browser "backup" instead of using the left arrow at the top left of screen or the "apple" + left arrow shortcut? I know these buttons are configurable but haven't seen anything for this option.
    imac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

    I use my MM nipple as a browser back button. I never configured it that way. It came that way. However, I do not "click" the nipple (scroll wheel). If I click the nipple the widgets pop up.
    I just scroll the nipple towards the left & the browser page will go to the previous page.
    If I scroll to the right, the browser will go to the next page if I had previously been there.
    Is the above what you are asking?
    EDIT: The above works with Firefox & Mozilla. I no longer use Safari but I guess it works in that browser also as I rarely use "browser" back buttons.

  • Wired Mighty Mouse cannot scroll down.

    I have had my wired mighty mouse since 2007. Every once in a while the scroll would stop working for a second but once i rolled it around, it would start scrolling again. Now my mouse has not been able to scroll down all day. I have read online that if you roll the scroller around on paper, it will clean the roller and it should start working again. I tried this many times and my mouse is still not functioning. Is there a way to fix this or should i just purchase a new one?

    You need to open & clean. Watch this video.
    http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/technology/watch/v378809PrA5a3pg
     Cheers, Tom

  • IMac Mighty Mouse Randomly Clicking Side Buttons

    Ok, so I have figured out Why these mice do the "random clicking". It turns out that if your house has a grounding issue and you have ungrounded devices plugged in such as Apple iPhone power brick, PC laptop power packs, or other two prong devices, there will be a grounding issue and the ludicrous amount of electromagnetic interference will cause your mouse to click randomly.
    The only solution I have found is to hook up a power strip with a power conditioner built in or remove the offending device from the same power outlet. Or more drastically, have an electrician come in and re-wire your grounds.
    Switching to a wireless mouse is another option...
    I don't understand why the iMac would be so susceptible to this kind of interference, but I'm guessing that since the machine is designed to be run in a place with proper grounding
    - DJF

    Ok, so I have figured out Why these mice do the "random clicking". It turns out that if your house has a grounding issue and you have ungrounded devices plugged in such as Apple iPhone power brick, PC laptop power packs, or other two prong devices, there will be a grounding issue and the ludicrous amount of electromagnetic interference will cause your mouse to click randomly.
    The only solution I have found is to hook up a power strip with a power conditioner built in or remove the offending device from the same power outlet. Or more drastically, have an electrician come in and re-wire your grounds.
    Switching to a wireless mouse is another option...
    I don't understand why the iMac would be so susceptible to this kind of interference, but I'm guessing that since the machine is designed to be run in a place with proper grounding
    - DJF

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