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If you’re a wireless mouse owner, probably have experienced a situation where mouse becomes irresponsive. We can try the following to make it right. If none of these works, contact your vendor for more assistance!

Try different USB port

Insert the device in another USB port. Try without USB extenders.

Re-Synchronize the receiver

Check for constant green light on the wireless transmitter/receiver after plugging in. Check the red light under mouse blinks well. Push the reset buttons on both mouse and receiver after connecting it to the power. Remove and insert if necessary. Most of the synchronization problems should be resolved by this step.

Image Taken from Microsoft.com

Remove and Insert batteries again

Remove the undercover and insert the battery again. Also ensure that it’s not a drained battery. Always use good quality batteries with your mouse.

Interference

There’s a chance that other wireless devices, mobile phones, radios etc. interfering wireless signals. Take required steps to avoid them.

Upgrade your software

Especially when working with old version of Windows, the latest drivers may not be available. Download it from product vendor’s website. Windows 7 and Vista support most of the latest hardware. Download the drivers from here, if you’re using Microsoft Wireless Mouse of Keyboard

Try This in different computer

Borrow your friend’s computer for a minute and check if it works!

I’ve successfully installed both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Netbook Remix in my brand new Dell Mini 10v. Here I’m explaining about how to make a bootable USB stick to install Windows 7. This is quite simple but before getting this final solution, I’ve tried with many different tools to prepare the USB stick and it was desperately failed. Either they will not have any option to write into USB or the writing may have some kind of drawback which may result into a failed booting.

I’ve received the box pre-installed with Japanese version of Windows 7 Starter Edition. I’ve not opted for an external drive when I purchased. So I had prepared the image file using Magic ISO. Dumping in ISO image format is better as it’s a universally accepted format.

There are two methods to prepare the USB disk.

1. Using USB to DVD tool from Microsoft Store

Microsoft realized your needs and they’ve provided a safe method to prepare the bootable USB from ISO. Prepare the ISO image using magic disc. Download the tool from Microsoft website. Now things are pretty straight forward. Just go through the guided steps to create the bootable USB stick

Once you complete preparing the USB, reboot your computer and press F12 (for Dell Laptops only) in the POST screen to choose the boot device. From that opt for USB Storage Device. Go ahead with the simplest Windows Installation we’ve ever seen in Windows history.

2. Using diskpart and xcopy (or simple windows copying)

This step must be done very carefully as it may damage your own HDD if it used wrong. Do this at your own risk.

First you’ve to plugin the USB stick and open the command line tool diskpart from Run Window or from command prompt.

You can see a similar window as displayed above. Note that Windows Vista or Windows 7 may ask for administrator privilege to run this application. Do the following steps

• list disk – this will list the attached physical disks connected to the system
• select disk # – select the preferred disk. Here you must be very careful. Make sure that you’ve chosen the right disk. Otherwise you may lose your data. replace # the number listed ### column of list disk command
• clean – clear the configuration information
• create partition primary – Create the partition for the stick
• format fs=fat32 quick – note that if you’ve not opted for quick, you will have to wait till the OS finish the true formatting of entire disk.
• assign – assign a drive letter for the drive to access through explorer

You’ve prepared a clean USB device. Now mount the ISO image or using magic disc or insert the DVD. Simply copy paste the contents of the folder to the prepared USB device. You can also use xcopy or robocopy if you’re preferring the command line tools.

You can see a video demonstration of this in Microsoft Technet

The next step was to prepare the bootable USB stick from the and created the using my other personal computer to prepare the bootable USB drive. Reboot your computer and press F12 (for Dell Laptops only) in the POST screen to choose the boot device. From that opt for USB Storage Device.

note that the second method has failed many times even the USB started booting. I don’t know if it was the problem with my USB stick. Always try to it with the first method mention.