Digital BW, The Print

Hello,
having settled on a trackball for the last few years, I got a 
Kensington Expert Mouse recently - but it appeared to be faulty, with 
the left button either not clicking, or being sticky - dragging 
instead of clicking.

So I got a replacement - same problem.

Has anyone else had this problem with the Kensington ball? Maybe 
they've made a bad batch.

I guess I'll be asking for my money back ... but it's odd to have two 
bad ones in a row, though I can't imagine how it could be the fault 
of the computer. The laptop's left and right buttons work ok.  But 
strangely, the previous Logitech ball I was using had developed the 
same fault, so I'm scratching my head as to what could be causing it, 
if not a bad contact in the device.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

thanks,
Richard
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Have used a Kensington trackball for many years without issue. What OS 
are you using and do you use Kensington's software, currently 
Trackballball Works.

Cheers

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On 11/6/2011 10:24 AM, Richard Smallfield wrote:
>
> Hello,
> having settled on a trackball for the last few years, I got a
> Kensington Expert Mouse recently - but it appeared to be faulty, with
> the left button either not clicking, or being sticky - dragging
> instead of clicking.
>
> So I got a replacement - same problem.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem with the Kensington ball? Maybe
> they've made a bad batch.
>
> I guess I'll be asking for my money back ... but it's odd to have two
> bad ones in a row, though I can't imagine how it could be the fault
> of the computer. The laptop's left and right buttons work ok. But
> strangely, the previous Logitech ball I was using had developed the
> same fault, so I'm scratching my head as to what could be causing it,
> if not a bad contact in the device.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Richard
> _________________
> Richard Smallfield
> Ph: 09 422 6615
> Cell: 022 045 9446
> Photography: http://richardsmallfield.com
> EV+1 Blog: http://evplus1.blogspot.com/
> Developing Tank Blog: http://developingtank.blogspot.com/
> YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RichardSmallfield
>
> 


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Hi,
yes, I use the Kensington software; I'm on Windows Vista.

My Microsoft mouse works fine.

thanks,
Richard

At 09:34 a.m. Monday 7/11/2011, you wrote:
>Have used a Kensington trackball for many years without issue. What OS 
>are you using and do you use Kensington's software, currently 
>Trackballball Works.
>
>Cheers

________________
Richard Smallfield
Photography:  http://richardsmallfield.com 
EV+1 Blog: http://evplus1.blogspot.com/
Developing Tank Blog: http://developingtank.blogspot.com/
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Maybe re-installing the software would help. Like I said I have never 
had a problem with my Kensington track  balls.

Cheers

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On 11/6/2011 12:53 PM, Richard Smallfield wrote:
>
> Hi,
> yes, I use the Kensington software; I'm on Windows Vista.
>
> My Microsoft mouse works fine.
>
> thanks,
> Richard
>
> At 09:34 a.m. Monday 7/11/2011, you wrote:
> >Have used a Kensington trackball for many years without issue. What OS
> >are you using and do you use Kensington's software, currently
> >Trackballball Works.
> >
> >Cheers
>
> ________________
> Richard Smallfield
> Photography: http://richardsmallfield.com
> EV+1 Blog: http://evplus1.blogspot.com/
> Developing Tank Blog: http://developingtank.blogspot.com/
> YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RichardSmallfield
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> 


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Hi,
thanks for the suggestion it might be the software: I uninstalled it and at present it's working ok again.

Richard


At 11:19 a.m. Monday 7/11/2011, you wrote:
>Maybe re-installing the software would help. Like I said I have never 
>had a problem with my Kensington track balls.
>
>Cheers

________________
Richard Smallfield
Photography:  http://richardsmallfield.com 
EV+1 Blog: http://evplus1.blogspot.com/
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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RichardSmallfield  

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Did you say in a previous post that the mouse button was sticky. That has nothing to do with the software.
Maybe it is a bad batch. Kensington is pretty reliable though but you never know
Pierre


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It was sticky, which was why I'd not thought it could be software, but after uninstalling the software, it's surprisingly now working ... hopefully it will be ok now.

thanks,
Richard

At 11:59 a.m. Monday 7/11/2011, you wrote:
>Did you say in a previous post that the mouse button was sticky. That has nothing to do with the software.
>Maybe it is a bad batch. Kensington is pretty reliable though but you never know
>Pierre

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That is indeed really strange. Glad it is working now..I was never fond of Vista. I really went from XP to 7. I am very pleased with 7. Fast and reliable...
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      It was sticky, which was why I'd not thought it could be software, but after uninstalling the software, it's surprisingly now working ... hopefully it will be ok now.



thanks,

Richard



At 11:59 a.m. Monday 7/11/2011, you wrote:

>Did you say in a previous post that the mouse button was sticky. That has nothing to do with the software.

>Maybe it is a bad batch. Kensington is pretty reliable though but you never know

>Pierre



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