I’m always amazed at the wisdom at this site..but this is a shot
into the dark as I have no idea what is going on.
So my question is, my cursor on my computer(the thingy you move
with your mouse) will move by its self when I’m on the computer.
It will be sitting still and I’ll go to click something and the
cursor as moved to the other side of the screen and I’ll have
to slide the mouse around so that I can locate it to move back
to where I need it. It happens only a few times in the course of
an hour or so.
So does anyone have any ideas as to what is happening?
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Sounds like your mouse is hungry!! Searching for goodies.......
Semper Fi
Get a new mouse. Most likely, it is sending signals as if it were moving. The cursor on the screen just responds to that. This most likely is a hardware failure of the mouse. It is highly unlikely that the mouse software is defective, because when software is defective, the whole thing would likely not work.
Iv'e got another mouse so I'll trythat, I was thinking maybe I had a virusor trojan or sumpthin like that.thanks!
try cleaning it http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_mouse.htm(assuming its not optical )
it is an optical....
Your either hacked or have a virus. You might have a defective mouse. Heck they are cheap enough buy another one and see if it still happens.
Rock the Tipi!
Cat is playing with the mouse.
Seriously, mine does that if the cord gets twisted and pulls the mouse.
it's looking for another mouse....
in knows there is a cat in the nieghborhood and is trying to hide...
replace the insurbordinate little bugger...
it's nurons are out of sync...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Try changing the surface that the mouse sits on. For whatever reason (or because it has a red LED), my mouse just doesn't like working on my green desk. As long as I use it on top of the never-ending stack of paperwork, it's just fine, though.
if it's the old style trak ball it'd full of trash...
optical.. the reader is dirty...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
the reader is dirty..I resemble that remark......how do I clean a dirty reader? :-)
take 'em to the showers...
open it up and clean the opticale plates if you can...
it you can't get to them...
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Optical mouse. Put a pad under it.
Edit: Tollyaso
Edited 6/18/2006 1:46 pm by SamT
Butch,
Is the PC your using a laptop, with an 'pensil eraser' style mouse? If it is, the mouse is starting to fail and needs to be replaced.
You nailed the laptop...but what is a "pencil eraser" type mouse?
This is unlikly, but do you have a logitec mouse with "smart jump" turned on?
How about anything vibrating the table the mouse is sitting on?
YOu guys are good...got a logitech mouse but what is smart jump?
Smart jump is a setting in the logitec software that has the cursor "jump" to the default box (the one with the attention) when a new window pops up. Open the logitec mouse software, look at the motion tab, and see if "smart move" is enabled. I doubt this is your problem though. For this to be the problem, something would have to be opening over where the cursor moves.I'd suspect either vibration or dirt, though virus/hack is a possibility.
This is known as "mouse drift" and is quite common, especially in Dell laptops.....(Dude is it a Dell?!) No virus, just kinda annoying. I work in the business and it happens to me sometimes too...I run a Logitech trackball when in the office, and still see it from time to time.-Jess