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| Thread ID: 44997 | 2004-05-05 23:40:00 | mouse cursor goes mad | BevanJClarke (5616) | Press F1 |
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| 234569 | 2004-05-05 23:40:00 | My mouse cursor has gone independent to the point of making my Toshiba Tecra S1 under XP Pro almost unusable . After a short period of use after booting up (mainly using MS Office, Word 2003) the cursor becomes cursed with independent life . The mouse cursor will drift to the top of the screen and stay there, wandering leftwards; the insertion point cursor will suddenly head straight up or straight down . The mouse cursor can become so elastically resistant to being dragged around that in desperation I end up using Alt-F4 to close a window! And I have even seen shonky behaviour while using the keyboard's down-arrow to traverse a drop-down menu! I just unplugged the mouse receiver and even under touchpad control the mouse cursor has just gone to the top of the screen! The best reliablity for the longest period comes from booting with no mouse attached at all . [I also have a Linux partition running Xandros 2 . 0 . I have not seen any of this cursor misbehaviour under Linux . Well, not yet . ] Window's cursor action first went bonkers after I had installed a USB Belkin Micro Wireless Mouse, but not necessarily because of that . I have (re-)tried other wireless mice, including my older Logitech . Now they all do it . I have borrowed a friend's Belkin mouse--same story . I have re-installed the Belkin driver . My technician a) uninstalled all mouse drivers and reinstalled my old Logitech Wireless mouse . Worked OK for a few hours . b) returned me to a pre-Belkin Restore Point . Problem seems minimised but not gone . I have swept the machine with Sophos AnitVirus, SpyBotSearch and Destroy and Ad-Aware . (I updated all three first . ) No effect . I suspect it is not the mouse software at all but a fault elsewhere that is merely *triggered* by mousing . Help! |
BevanJClarke (5616) | ||
| 234570 | 2004-05-06 03:03:00 | Try disabling the touch pad. Cheers Murrray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 234571 | 2004-05-06 03:58:00 | I am with Murray here, it could be "leakage" in the touchpad, working in parallel to any mouse and controlling the movements randomly | godfather (25) | ||
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