Mouse freeze up in XP

Most often occurrence in YAHOO! (IE 5.5), my mouse freezes for no reason and completely locks up the computer. Any ideas on why this is happening? I am using a Sony VAIO mouse that came with my computer, and I also have an Intellipoint mouse (or something similar), both of which have the same problems. In all other Windows environments, I have been able to do an ctrl alt del to find the "offending" program. I get nothing from Windows XP.

Is this just an XP thing or what? I use Windows 2000 in my job, and the task manager is most excellent when you have a program or individual problem.

Any information would be appreciated.

 

Anything interesting in the event logs?

Task manager - any task showing as "not running "?

Processes - any showing as taking a huge amount of memory or cpu time?

Sony VAIO mouse?? I'm familiar with the Sony Laptops in the VAIO series but not a particular mouse. USB?

In fact, have you tried with a serial mouse? Possible that a USB port is bad.