Vista: Mouse Freezes for several seconds

I recently bought a new computer from DELL with Vista Home Premium.
However, quite often (usually once a minute) the mouse will freeze,
hang up or pause mid move. This freeze is about 1 to 5 seconds long.
The Task Manager shows a CPU spike but no processes show any activity
(perhaps a service is causing it but that tab doesnt show process
activity). This is quite annoying and has cause me to click on
incorrect buttons when it freezes.

Thank you,

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> I recently bought a new computer from DELL with Vista Home Premium.
> However, quite often (usually once a minute) the mouse will freeze,
> hang up or pause mid move. This freeze is about 1 to 5 seconds long.
> The Task Manager shows a CPU spike but no processes show any activity
> (perhaps a service is causing it but that tab doesnt show process
> activity). This is quite annoying and has cause me to click on
> incorrect buttons when it freezes.

What mouse did you get? The basic or one of the fancy ones? How is it
connected, and if using USB, what port (on the keyboard or directly to
the computer?)

Have you tried another mouse? Have you tried uninstalling the crappy
Dell mouse suite software and just using the stock Windows drivers?

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On Nov 22, 7:40 am, Andrew Rossmann
<andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net> wrote:
> [This followup was posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general and
> a copy was sent to the cited author.]
>
> In article <dccc8ec2-f244-4dc5-b79f-
> f5f8225a1...@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, tstep...@gmail.com says...
>
> > I recently bought a new computer from DELL with Vista Home Premium.
> > However, quite often (usually once a minute) the mouse will freeze,
> > hang up or pause mid move. This freeze is about 1 to 5 seconds long.
> > The Task Manager shows a CPU spike but no processes show any activity
> > (perhaps a service is causing it but that tab doesnt show process
> > activity). This is quite annoying and has cause me to click on
> > incorrect buttons when it freezes.
>
> What mouse did you get? The basic or one of the fancy ones? How is it
> connected, and if using USB, what port (on the keyboard or directly to
> the computer?)
>
> Have you tried another mouse? Have you tried uninstalling the crappy
> Dell mouse suite software and just using the stock Windows drivers?
>
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Hi, I am not using the mouse that came with the PC. I have a standard
MS optical USB mouse and using those drivers. I didn't uninstall the
older drivers or install any new ones. When the PC came up it simply
detected the mouse and switched to it. I haven't tried a different
mouse yet. I'll add that to the list of things to try and post back
here. It looks like from the forums many people have had this issue
but all the proposed solutions did not work for me.

Thanks,

Hi there,

I have the same problem. Did a fresh install of Ultimate x64, the first
days installing went smooth, then suddenly the mouse pointer freezes for
about 5 to 10 seconds.
It started after soms updates from windows I think...
I did some googling around, found lots of info (lots of Dell pc's), non
of the trick did it for me.. .
But i don't have a dell so they aren't the problem.

My system is as followed:
Asus A8N-SLI Premium MoBo.
AmD x64 3800+
3Gb Ram (2*512Mb + 2*1Gb)
Geforce 7800GT 256mb
System is installed on a RAID1

I really hope to find a sollution... :shock:


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On 28-Nov-2007, Skik <> wrote:

> I have the same problem. Did a fresh install of Ultimate x64, the first
> days installing went smooth, then suddenly the mouse pointer freezes for
> about 5 to 10 seconds.
> It started after soms updates from windows I think...

Same problem, try CTL/ALT/DEL Task Manager, when it freezes 100% CPU,
Processes TAB will show what's using the CPU 100%.