Do you take the mouse part to clean off foreign object?   

I could with my previous roll-ball mouse but now I have a completely new computer set and along with the a new mouse too…this optical mouse thing though I don’t really understand what’s so latest about it…only thing is that it cant be taken apart just like that.

I used to do that! Now I've got the laser! So I have more time to surf! tdemex

I often clean the mouse, while still using the mouse wheel. I am pleased that the mouse type. Now it difficult to get a mouse like that. I had to use the optical mouse. Difficult to be demolished and cleared.

even though i have a optical mouse i clean the base of the mouse often
as the it catches up with the dust over the table or on the mouse pad

I do clean my mouse back when I was using a mouse that has a trackball since I can take the parts away. But now, I am using an optical mouse and just need to clean the exterior part of it.

hey friend, i do clean my mouse pad regularly, it is really important to do, but i have to say it was a lot more important to clean the mouse pad back then when they only had the roller mouse... the optical mouse really acts funny when there is dust on the mouse pad, the receiving end of the optical sensor begins to react in a funny way and so sometimes your pointer moves when you aren't even moving your mouse, it is pretty funny to see that happening though

i have had that problem before. It happened multiple of times. It was starting to get annoying. One time it stop responding to every movement. I felt to smash the computer. I bought a laser mouse instead. It survived about 5 months before my baby brother and sister (twins) played with the cord until it burst. So now i am back to my original mouse with the ball.

did that all the time, now I have an optical mouse and no moving parts. just take a computer wipe and keep the optical part clean and it works great

i dun have to clean my mouse cause im using the laser one.if something goes wrong with my mouse, i juz need to buy another one.quite simple isn't it?

We certainly are a rare breed of men my friend. Just recently I responded to a discussion where I'm the only soul that still uses one. It is by choice right? I believe you use mac and it has other mice. When our mouse wander and moves with the mind of its own that's the time it need our ever tender loving care.)