On Thursday 03 April 2003 14:02, MaC wrote: > To be honest when I first saw the mail about the colour of the mouse > mat, I laughed my head off, then figured it was worth ago, as the one > I'm using is a black dell mat, so I'm now using my nice false pine desk > as the mouse pad and voila, so far its working perfectly. > > I must apologise for laughing at first, as it did seem rather a silly > and mad suggestion, but it worked, and all I can say is *Thank you* very > much, this has been driving me mad for about 5 months, the mat would of > been the last thing I figured. > > They should put a heath warning on the box's about dark mouse mats, as I > had two optical mouses (mice's or whatever), now I only have one thanks > to mr scissors :) I had to recently help somebody who's mouse wouldn't work at home, and after a few weeks of various things, I found out (through idle chatter) that he was trying to use the optical mouse on a glass coffee table.... gave him a mousepad, everything worked fine. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r