Crazy Mouse!
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Topic: Crazy Mouse!
Posted By: Amateur
Subject: Crazy Mouse!
Date Posted: 17 December 2004 at 7:36pm
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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 By: dpyers
Date Posted: 17 December 2004 at 9:50pm
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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.
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Posted By: davidshq
Date 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 By: Amateur
Date Posted: 18 December 2004 at 11:38am
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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 By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date 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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 18 December 2004 at 1:06pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 18 December 2004 at 1:36pm
Try someone elses mouse, if not try reinstalling windows 
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Posted By: the boss
Date 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 ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: davidshq
Date Posted: 18 December 2004 at 11:49pm
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I have had the problem with the trackball on laptops before, usually if
I let it go where it wanted then it straightened itself out. But, it is
strange that an external mouse is doing it as well, let us know if the
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Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 19 December 2004 at 9:05am
Where do i find the hotfix? Not sure what you mean.
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the boss wrote:Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 20 December 2004 at 1:04pm
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windows update just run a scan and check in drivers section.. they are optional so u have to mnaul select them for installation ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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Posted By: neotrix
Date Posted: 28 December 2004 at 10:29am
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Restart your computer when ever your mouse starts acting weard.
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