Mouse problems?

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Timeo27

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Ok, here's the deal. For the past few days, I've found myself having to click several times on buttons, toolbars, that are single-click items. And sometimes I have to click three or four times just to select an icon on the desktop, and then a couple more times to try and run it with a double click. It's sort of an on and off thing, sometimes everything works ok and then occasionally I start having problems again. And there are in between stages where only some of them things I click have this problem. So far, it's only the left/primary button. It's hard to explain, but I think that there could be something wrong with my mouse.

I checked my Mouse properties under control panel to see if anything had been changed like double-click speed, but everything was fine. The mouse is about two years old, and it sounds insane to think that I could have "overclicked" it and that it's starting to go bad.

I'm not averse to buying a new mouse (I've been wanting one for quite some time now, anyway) it's just that it's really a hard problem to actually convince my dad that there is something wrong, so if anyone has any suggestions or info, they'd be greatly appreciated.
 
I know what you say, believe me. I have faced it several times with my 4 year old Mitsumi Serial two button mouse. It first happened an year ago. I cleaned the rollers with "surgical spirit" and it came back to normal. Then it happened again in last March. It was much severe. I couldn't make it work after cleaning as I did before. But some days after, when I cleaned it again, it came back to normal. There is no software problem I reckon, so clean teh rollers and see. I think the problem is overclicking the button. The catalog which came with my Mouse also had said that it can support upto 1 million clicks.
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