Funny you are talking about mice, I had a mouse question.
Is there any way to clean it (near the optic) without taking it apart? I just got done taking mine apart, but I'm lazy, and would like to avoid doing that in the future. I had been putting off taking my mouse apart for months. Even though it was affecting performance in my games (sometimes it wouldn't register when I moved the mouse, or it would be jerky movement). Can you spray air in there to clear it, or is it best just to take it apart?
Not only do I have to remove 4 screws to get the cover off, but I have to remove 2 more to remove the electronic board and the optic attached to it. Then I can clean underneath that optic. I cleaned the mouse wheel too. The only issues I had with that, were sometimes it would have unintended movements like a minute after I used it. I never understood why that happens. It's always did that as far as I remember.
Yeah I know it's not much work, but I'm a horrible procrastinator when it comes to work around the house.