USB optical mouse keeps dying - Solved - sort of

[Jan Morales]

Claude Jones wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> | I have a MS optical USB mouse. After a time, once the screen
> | save has kicked in, the mouse dies. The light goes out, and
> | even tho the keyboard still works and returns the screen, the
> | mouse continues to sleep. Only unplugging it and plugging it
> | back in revives it. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have an
> | almost identically configured box at work and it doesn't happen
> | there. 
> | 
> | --
> | Claude Jones
> | Bluemont, VA, USA
> 
> 
> 
> Claude Jones
> Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
> Leesburg, VA, USA
> 
> 

So what is the sort-of solution?

Jan