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July 28, 2006 10:10 AM PDT

Wireless Mighty Mouse (#2): Sluggish movement; more

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Sluggish movement Several users are reporting sluggish tracking speed from the new Wireless (Bluetooth) Mighty Mouse.

One poster to Apple's Discussion boards, corranroh, writes:

"My bluetooth mighty mouse pairs with my MacBook but the cursor barely moves, tons of lag on slowest and fastest settings - clearly a problem. the problem also exists on the Windows XP side of the MacBook - very strange."

As noted by the above poster, users note that the sluggish movement occurs even with the highest tracking speed settings (modifiable in the Keyboard & Mouse pane of System Preferences).

Users experiencing this issue may want to try an alternative mouse driver. Options include:

If you are experiencing a similar issue, please let us know.

Setting up the Wireless Mighty Mouse to work with Boot Camp In order to get the Wireless Mighty Mouse to work with Windows XP running under Boot Camp, you must first turn on Bluetooth, then go to the Windows XP Control Panel and select "Bluetooth Devices." Click "Add..." then the option that reads "My device is setup and ready to be found," then the "Next" button.

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