Any ideas?
After about a year of using it the scroll wheel on my wireless mouse has stopped working all the time. Works intermittently, seemingly at random. Everything else works fine, and changing the batteries doesn't help. Drivers are up to date.

Suggestions on how/if I can sort it out without buying a new mouse would be appreciated.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 17:56, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

New mouse

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 17:57, Reply)

I could come to that conclusion on my own :-P
rather see if this one can be salvaged first. it's a nice mouse. plus it uses the same wireless dongle thing as my keyboard.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 17:58, Reply)

Isn't a new mouse
less than a fiver, you tight get?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:02, Reply)

not for a wireless one that works on the same usb dongle thing as my keyboard

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:04, Reply)

I'd have it open
poke around with a screwdriver for a few minutes trying to see what's wrong, give it a blow out around the wheel area, try to put it back together again, fail and go and buy a new mouse.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:05, Reply)

this sounds like my usual solution to problems of an electrical nature

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:05, Reply)

There's a lesson just waiting to be learned, there ;)

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:15, Reply)

take it apart and clean it out,
your flith has probably clogged up the scroll wheel.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:11, Reply)

this seems to be the case
as I have taken it apart and blown in it and now it seems to work.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:25, Reply)

In future
turn away from the computer when jizzing over horse porn.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 18:42, Reply)