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Posted: 17 December 2004 at 7:36pm |
I have a problem with my mouse cursor. It seems to have a life of its own lately, it starts to scroll to the side of the screen and i cant control it or stop. My OS is XP Home edition.
Anyone else have a similar problem or know how to fix it?
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Posted: 17 December 2004 at 9:50pm |
take the ball out and scrape the rollers inside. they pick up gunk after a while but usually more on one roller than on another.
Other things to check are if your mouse cord is too close to your monitor/monitor cable.
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Posted: 17 December 2004 at 11:37pm |
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Is this an external mouse or like a laptop mouse?
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Posted: 18 December 2004 at 11:38am |
It is a laptop I have. The same problem is evident with both the external mouse and laptop mouse.
I am using a laser mouse so no ball. When I disconnect the mouse, the problem still exists, the cursor scrolls on its own to the side of the screen. Sometimes the cursor is perfect and works perfect, more times it has a mind of its own.
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Posted: 18 December 2004 at 12:07pm |
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Have you checked for a virus? some of them do very strange things that aren't always harmful, just odd.
Also check for programs installed on computers, as I know some people
who enjoy putting programs on other peoples machines that make them do
things like the disk drives popping open at random times, or even
something like you mention.
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Posted: 18 December 2004 at 1:06pm |
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I have run a virus check, Norton Anti Virus and also use spybot to search other mallicioue progams. They have come up with nothing. Have went through all the programs and cant see anything that might cause this problem. Thanks for your help boRg.
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Posted: 18 December 2004 at 1:36pm |
Try someone elses mouse, if not try reinstalling windows 
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Posted: 18 December 2004 at 2:56pm |
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this is bug with windows xp make sure u hve the hotfix or the Microsoft Mouse driver from windows update
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