Wired Apple mouse

I have a new Macbook pro and Wired Apple mouse and keyboard that I use when the external monitor is engaged. I notice one in a while that, for no apparent reason, the mouse pointer moves to the bottom left or right of the screen (sometimes to the top) on its own. Not sure what this could be. I called Apple and they went through all the resets to try and solve the problem. When they suggested that I try another usb mouse, I did that and I didn't seem to have a problem with the jumping on the old generic usb mouse. They sent me a new mouse. The same thing is happening. I've noticed when doing a google search that I'm not alone in this issue. Has anyone found a solution to this?

Then if you know there are interference issues with the external monitor and wired mouse when operating together, you can try testing with a differnet monitor and see if that makes any differentce. Also when you said in the original post that while working with Apple Support you used a diffenret mouse, was that with or without the monitor? If it was with the monitor then go back to using that mouse since it did not have the interference issue.
Or, with the external monitor just use the builtin trackpad if you do not get interference.
Without a thorough diagnositic rundown the best solution is to find what works and stick with that.

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My wired Apple mouse stopped working for a short time. Trying to figure out why.

System OSX Version 10.9.5 Processor 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 I was surfing the web & my mouse was stuck on the screen. Could this be some kind of virus- spyware or malware? Never had this happen before. The keyboard the mouse is connected 2 kept working but the mouse stoped working momentarily. I pushed F3 & unplugged my mouse & plugged it back in. this fixed it but I am not sure that had anything to do with what caused my mouse to stop working.

Could be the USB port within the keyboard may have a problem in sustaining
a good connection. Sometimes those extra ports in keyboard fail. You can
see in the hardware portion of the activity monitor software in OS X what is
visible to the system as part of the chained USB items attached to the Mac.
To have a known-good spare mouse, keyboard, and any cable extensions,
is always a fair idea for the sake of troubleshooting and to get past a failure.
I use powered USB hubs with my Macs; but plug the keyboard directly into
the computer so as to have few issues with cold startup keyboard shortcuts.
The mouse does OK plugged into the hub, and a hub positioned so it can
be accessed easier than ports on the back of the computer makes sense.
If there is another hardware issue, or odd software extensions or add-ons
in your main user account, you'd have to test for those possibilities. To
try a second account to see if the same kinds of applications make it fail,
or run the Apple Hardware Test in the main user account, may not take
into the result any software that you'd use when normally at the Mac.
Sometimes the wire to the mouse can get weak and fail near the mouse;
so when that happens, it's best to have a spare on hand, ahead of trouble.
On the other hand, software conflicts could cause a frozen mouse or any
kind of odd pointer activity.
Good luck & happy computing!
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Jumpy wired Apple Mouse issue solved

I just want to share this with you whom has the same issue I had.
A few weeks ago I got myself a new Mac Mini and I used Migration Assistant to transfer everything (including Applications) from late 2009 Mac Mini to my new mid 2011 Mac Mini. Both Macs use Lion OS. It was a successful migration accept the mouse is acting funny on my new Mac. The mouse behaves jumpy.
The jumpy mouse happens when QuickTime 7 Pro, QuickTime X or/and iTunes are launched. When I quit them, the mouse goes back to normal behavior. I also notice that when any of these applications are launched, CPU usage reaches between 100% and 230% certainly and then drop back to 45% inconsistently. I believed what causes the CPU spike is totally QuickTime related. I realized it’s either its extension, preference or somethings else that needed to be taken care of.
Since I just purchased my new Mac Mini, I was entitled to free Mountain Lion upgrade. So I upgraded and hoping it will resolve my jumpy mouse issue. Somehow, it didn't but I love the new features from Mountain Lion though.
Finally, I decided to delete QuickTime 7 Pro completely. I also deleted com.apple.quicktime.plist in the Preferenc folder. Restarted my Mac. Voilà! Jump mouse stops completely. I launched QuickTime X and also iTunes, it doesn't cause any jumpy mouse issue anymore.
I hope this will help.

I have a Mac Pro 2007 (2,1) at work. Recently I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion (10.7.5) which is the last supported OSX for this model. After updating is finished, jumpy mouse symptom appears. I tried deleted all the preference filies but it did not work. To make long story short, it's the video board that caused the problem.
About a year ago I upgraded my video card to ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphic Card. It works fine on Snow Leopard but not on Lion. On Lion, not only it causes jumpy mouse but also screen flickering on second monitor every few minutes or so.
So I uninstalled the card and put back the original OEM video card that came with it. The jumpy mouse stops and everything is back to normal.

Activate Apple wired Pro Mouse ??

On the underside of this wired Apple mouse it is labeled ' Pro Mouse'. I think I ordered it with the MacBook less than a year ago. It has the force-sensing side controls. How do I activate all features? I think I remember that it has right-click also. No scroll ball. Nothing comes up in search. I'm fed up with wl mighty mouse eating batteries. Would like to work with this one again before making some other purchase. Preference pane has only click and cursor speed. Maybe not compatible. Now running OS 10.5.5 with MacBook. Thanks, Mark

I have a "Pro Mouse" (so it proclaims underneath). I don't know if it is the one that came with it (well, it came with it secondhand). Oval, black. No right click. Just a red light underneath. Squeeze the little pads on the side or click on the top, it all seems to do the same. Two options in Tiger preferences. According to [Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleProMouse] that's all it does.

Driver for wired mighty mouse driver in windows xp pc

I'm looking for drivers for the wired apple mouse aka mighty mouse to run in windows xp pro to have horizontal scrolling. Currently the generic plug & play driver allows vertical scrolling and horizotal only if the vertical scroll is not present. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have a MBP running Bootcamp 1.1.2 and XP SP2. My Bluetooth Mighty Mouse works well within XP with the exception of the left-right scrolling.
First I installed the mouse in the OSX operating system. Then when I booted in XP, I used the "Bluetooth Devices" from the control panel to find and connect the mouse with no problems.
I didn't have to worry with any mouse driver installation.
Is Bluetooth working in XP mode?

Will the wired Apple Mighty Mouse work with Windows Vista SP1?

The above question. Will I have to download any extra drivers? Is the MM really that bad? Thanks.

*" Will the wired Apple Mighty Mouse work with Windows Vista SP1?"*
Officially...No: http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/specs.html
In reality... probably. Why would you want it anyway? There are many many better mice out there.

My wired mighty mouse no longer scrolls down - only up and sideways.

My wired mighty mouse no longer scrolls down; only up and sideways. It could be a hardware problem and I guess I should go and by a new mouse but before I do I thought I'd check whether there was any parameter I could change to fix or test this. Anyone else had this problem? Cheers.

Hello and welcome to discussions,
Several ways to cure this one...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1537
http://www.mightymouserepair.com/
http://cultofmac.com/how-to-clean-your-mighty-mouse/4946
Any better now?
Regards.
Ian.

Apple Mouse Magic with Windows Vista

Hello!
My computer is Windows Vista 32 bits.
I have bluetooth mouse "Apple Mouse Magic", I got to work on Windows Vista I installed the drivers, but every time I reboot or re-enter Windows does not recognize me, and I have to link each time the mouse with a program Bluetooth BlueSoleil.
Does anyone know how I can leave it linked to Windows Vista without using an intermediary the "BlueSoleil"?
I tried adding it through the bluetooth device but there's no framework for when the box "Allow Bluetooth devices to find this computer" whenever I get the same error:
"Error while Windows save the settings. It is possible that the Bluetooth device is disconnected.
Do not keep the following configuration:
-Configuration Discovery
"Connection Settings"
Can anyone help me?
Thank you

*" Will the wired Apple Mighty Mouse work with Windows Vista SP1?"*
Officially...No: http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/specs.html
In reality... probably. Why would you want it anyway? There are many many better mice out there.

Apple mouse right click function stopped working

After 4 and a half years my Apple mouse right click function on my iMac stopped working. However the mouse works perfectly on my other iMac. The apple store said the problem is in the iMac. Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks, jpm3577

First log into another user account on your Mac and see if it work correctly there. If not boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode, and try there. Also try another USB port on the Mac if it's a wired mouse.

Apple mouse scrolling is too sensitive in Yosemite

I've use a wired USB Apple mouse with scroll ball (A1152) on my iMac 27", and since upgrading to Yosemite, the mouse scrolling has been way too sensitive and doesn't allow any fine adjustment of scrolling speed/acceleration in system preferences. In the Mouse preference pane, the 1st position on the Scrolling slider is way too slow–a full scroll of the bar down moves about 1/4 of a full webpage at native resolution with very slow acceleration. The 2nd slider position is not any faster than the 1st. The 3rd slider position accelerates way, way faster, and scrolls a distance of about 8 full pages using a moderate flick of the scroll ball. At this high sensitivity, I need to scroll fairly carefully to move only one page. In a finder window with 500 items, it accelerates fast enough to move from top of the list to the bottom with less than one full finger swipe of the ball at moderate speed. Any setting from 3-8 on the Scrolling slider is the same speed and acceleration and is way too fast to use in a well-controlled manner. The behavior system-wide and is the same in any browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome). This is nothing like how it behaved in OS X Lion through Mavericks over the past four years. Also, I can set the scrolling slide to the 3rd position, close system preferences, and go back in to find that it has set itself to the 2nd position, but the scrolling behavior is that of the 3rd position until I move the slider again.
I've trashed some .plist files from ~/Library/Preferences/ that I thought would reset things (com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist and others) upon logout/login, but the behavior persists. I've tried a few pieces of software to try to override mouse settings, and while they will affect the mouse tracking speed and acceleration, they don't work well at controlling the scroll speed. I've reset the PRAM and SMC. I've created a new user account. Nothing has allowed usable adjustment of scroll speed/acceleration of the Apple mouse.
Any suggestions on how I can regain in Yosemite the usable adjustment of scroll speed/acceleration that were in all previous OS versions would be appreciated.

Try setting the scroll wheel scaling manually, by running the following command in the Terminal and then logging out and then back in to re-load the settings:
defaults write -g com.apple.scrollwheel.scaling -float VALUE
In this case, try values of 1, 0.5, 0.25, etc, decreasing in half each time to see how the scroll wheel sensitivity responds, and then use the one that works best. Alternatively, you can use the system preferences to set the sensitivity to the two values you have used so far, followed by running the following command between each to see what the value is for each:
defaults read -g com.apple.scrollwheel.scaling
Then you can determine some intermediate value to use, and use the first command above to set it to that value (again followed by logging out and then back in so the value will load).

IMac Running Windows 7 - Wired Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keys

I dual boot using Boot Camp into OSX or Window 7. I wanted to use both my Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse, but the Mighty Mouse once it lost a connection I could not get it back easily so I switched to a Logitech wireless mouse. My wired Apple keyboard works except for the numeric keyboard to the right. There is no num lock so in WIndows 7 it thinks it is the function keys associated with a PC keyboard. Help.

Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & Windows, everyone there has or at least has an interest. You may attract help more quickly there.
The Forums are at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology. Here is a link;
Boot Camp: Installation and Storage
Dah•veed

Will any wired MIghty Mouse still work with my G5?

Unfortunately, my Mighty Mouse has reached the impossible-to-clean-trackball-anymore stage. It just won't scroll up anymore.
My current Mighty Mouse dates to 2006 or 2007. I wish I knew the exact model number beyond A1152.
Must I be concerned about what model Mighty Mouse I buy to replace this one? I know they came out with some zoom version. I don't care about the zoom. I just want the basic scrolling (I don't even use the side buttons; just click and scrolling).
Will any model of wired Mighty Mouse be okay?
Thanks so much!

"Unfortunately, my Mighty Mouse has reached the impossible-to-clean-trackball-anymore stage. It just won't scroll up anymore."
Cleaning inside and dismantling the Apple Mighty Mouse
BTW: Before purchasing a new MM, update your OS to 10.4.11 along w/all the updates that goes with it through Software Update.
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Wired Mighty Mouse problems with Mavericks.

Alright, so today I was gifted a wired Apple mighty mouse for Christmas and immediately after I started to use it, the cursor started to 'rubber band' (snapping back to previous positions). I've searched around and tried numerous supposed fixes that include resetting the Hot Corners, rebooting into safe mode and cleaning the mouse itself with no success. I recently updated to Mavericks if that's any help. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi ~Bee Thanks for your advice I do believe it its fine now !
Looks like I need a new Mouse mat, It's strange how the mat affected the mouse I haven't had any problems in the past ? I have also cleaned the mat and still have the same problem if I continue to use it. Could you recommend a mat to buy by any chance ?
Thanks also to you Dave, Looks like we got there in the end !
Regards
wackyracer01.

Why isn't my wired Mighty Mouse scrolling down?

Some days like right now my wired Mighty Mouse that came with my late 2007 20" aluminum iMac doesn't want to scroll downwards. The scroll ball scrolls upwards and sideways perfectly but doesn't want to scroll down. Why is it doing this? I tried cleaning the area of the scroll ball but still nothing. Please don't say that I need a new mouse.

I have the same problems with my less than six weeks old 24" iMac & two yr old macbook: i always wipe my hands before using them. I have tried most suggestions on this forum and others to no avail.
I could probably get a replacement thru apple care for my iMac, but since the problem is so prevalent, another mouse is not a viable solution.
At this time, I actually prefer using an old cheap wired mouse that was in storage .
To those considering another brand, I had random waking & waking only with restarting issues with a wireless logitech mouse on my macbook.

Erratic wired mighty mouse

I've just bought my first Apple MacPro about 6 weeks ago with a wired keyboard and wired mighty mouse. In the last week the mighty mouse has become very erratic in that it acts as if the back button has been pressed when ever the mouse is moved. In other words if I'm working on line and I touch the mouse even slightly the previous web page is brought up.
If use it in explorer or finder it brings up the previous directory.
This problem is present both in Leopard and in Windows XP running in Bootcamp.
Rebooting makes no difference
I've now attached an old Dell Logitech wireless mouse to a usb port and it works perfectly both with leopard and windows.
Any ideas?

I'm going through the same "issue" actually so I hope I can save you some time.
It's a grounding issue. You can experiment:
- Touch your Mac Pro system while you're moving the mouse, or;
- Touch your keyboard while moving the mouse
If the mouse calms down and doesn't try to escape , then you have the source of the problem.
I've read a lot of discussions on this, with people replacing their mice constantly, and even doing a full re-install. So if the above works, then your solution is in figuring out how to deal with the ground-ing problem.
What's more surprising is that Apple hasn't addressed this (it seems) for some time now. With all the gyrations customers go through, you'd think there would have been some type of solution (a recall perhaps?).

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