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Barb Buhle Posted on Jan 15, 2009

My mouse freezes up

On occasion my mouse will freeze up, will go from the arrow cursor to a black line with an arrow at each end, any ideas on cause or how to fix it, if I shut the computer down, sometimes that will take care of it, other times have to shut it down 2 times, any ideas

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Only thing i can think of is that it sounds like it might be virus/spyware related. See if you can get a scan done with some good internet security software, i wouldn't be surprised if it picked something up.

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