Updated last year to Windows 10 from Windows 7 on my laptop- I thought no problems.
At some point I noticed my external optical mouse was dragging etc - it was a good few years old so not really surprised. I faffed around with it a bit, couldn't see anything obviously wrong with it (looked inside and it was gross - years of dust build up...) and got a really old mouse out (one with a ball) that was ok -but again had problems with dragging etc.-
I treated myself to a new wireless optical mouse - still had problems with dragging, losing the cursor etc. Checked the drivers were up to date etc.
Came to the conclusion that it was my mousepad (also ancient -with a few scratches and a pattern) - so bought a new mouse pad...it is still playing up ...
Looked online in desperation - and found that a few people are complaining about the Windows 10 and mouse problems - with lots of solutions - some from a couple of years ago ...and some supposedly solved with updates.
I rarely use the touchpad mouse - so I am a bit cack-handed with it anyway but I think that has been playing up too...
So has anyone else come across this problem - recently . Does anyone have any idea of the best thing to try?
I've tried to delete it and then reinstall it but then it crashes the computer - in the settings it says it is removing it - then sticks...
If I try and restart the computer - it gets stuck at restarting - I have to force it to shut down (using the power key) -then it seems to boot up normally.
I did a system restore and it said it didn't complete but that seemed to be due to a Java update done after the last restore point...
Looking online for help I could find something about problems removing blue tooth devices- and find I have the same problem - I have an old mobile phone as a blue tooth connected device - and it won't let me remove that either ...(even if I turn the WIFi off ...which makes no sense but seems to work for some people)...
Thinking about doing a Windows 10 refresh - but I have lots of programs and settings etc I'll have to reinstall etc...
(and firefox just updated and I lost all my extensions etc -so have spent enough time messing around with computers recently -really can't face that)
But at times the mouse is unusable...