One possible fix for a broken Mighty Mouse right click

Dec 22, '06 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: luomat

I bought myself a wireless Mighty Mouse during Apple's Black Friday sale. For the life of me, I could not get the right-click to work, even after enabling it in the System Preferences panel. I tried tapping all over the place on the right side of the mouse and it worked maybe one out of twenty times as I muttered "Why couldn't they just build a real two-button mouse?"

Finally I called Apple, intent on getting my money back. I connected to the tech support department and explained the problem. He put me on hold for a few minutes and then came back and asked me to try something:

  1. Turn off the mouse
  2. Take out the batteries
  3. Put the batteries back in
  4. Turn it back on
I thought he was kidding and wondered "What good will that do? I've turned it on and off several times since I bought it." Well, apparently the key is taking out the batteries, because it is working flawlessly now. (Still no solution for the carpal-tunnel-inducing side buttons, though. What were they thinking?!)

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