Wireless mouse problem

[Trinity]

Basically, earlier today my mouse was playing up. It worked perfectly most of the time, but if I touched the scroll wheel, it messed up and wouldn't move sideways.
Now it's gotten worse. Even when I don't touch the scroll wheel, it still only moves up and down.

Anyone know how to fix it?

[scottish]

Mine does that when its low on batteries lol.

Tried cleaning it, what mouje is it, is it optical/ball?

[Trinity]

Mine does that when its low on batteries lol.

Tried cleaning it, what mouje is it, is it optical/ball?

These batteries are brand new, only put them in yesterday :(

Ball. And I don't even have a replacement mouse, my mum threw it out thinking that we wouldn't need it again :(

[scottish]

Try cleaning it out also try other batteries :P

[Trinity]

Try cleaning it out also try other batteries :P

Tried, didn't help :(
I'm gonna take it apart and see if anything looks broken, wish me luck :)

[Trinity]

Right, I've found the problem now. Y'know those spinny things (that's the technical term) that the wheel rubs against? Well the little thing holding that in place has snapped.
And after a furious battle with the mouse, involving some glue, some small pieces of plastic, some scissors and me falling backwards off of my chair causing the mouse ball to fly into my eye... I've realised that it isn't going to work.

I need a new mouse now :(

Edit: How do I do that thing where I can control my cursor with the keyboard arrows?
Nevermind, googled it :)

[scottish]

Heh you'd be better getting optical if buying a new one now.

[Trinity]

Heh you'd be better getting optical if buying a new one now.

Yeah, I got an optical one this morning, I hate ball mice.
And I also ordered a back up optical mouse on ebay last night, £2.99, bargain.

Not wireless though :(

+rep for trying to help anyway :)

[scottish]

:P ta

I got a microsoft wireless optical one, was 30 pound im sure :P Never let me down :D