"Bryan Henderson" wrote in message
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yesterday my Genius optical mouse stopped working. I presumed the computer
had frozen but when I switched on this morning it said no mouse was
attached, my old Microsoft mouse however works fine. So are optical mice
more prone to fail than ball mice? It is only about a year old. Recently a
friend of mine had an optical mouse fail which was only 4 months old.


well I opened it up checked the cable etc and tried it again and it works
fine now. BTW not much inside one of these mice!!