MS ‘basic optical mouse’ cursor jumps around

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Nev
Oct 28, 2004
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No pattern to it whatsoever: it does it when it does it. The cursor spontaneously zips to the upper left of my screen. I’m running XP Pro, the mouse is on a patterned mousepad, and I keep the pad and mouse clean. Yet it jumps without any reason I know of.

What’s the fix for this?

[I’ve asked on <microsoft.public.hardware> but no one answered]
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Hecate
Oct 29, 2004
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:12:10 -0700, "Nev" wrote:

No pattern to it whatsoever: it does it when it does it. The cursor spontaneously zips to the upper left of my screen. I’m running XP Pro, the mouse is on a patterned mousepad, and I keep the pad and mouse clean. Yet it jumps without any reason I know of.

What’s the fix for this?

[I’ve asked on <microsoft.public.hardware> but no one answered]
Two things I can think of:

1. The old favourite, a video card driver problem
2. Hidden software (spyware/adware/viral/trojan/etc) launching and causing a short focus change.

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lkrz
Oct 29, 2004
Try turning down graphic acceleration. On Win98, you’d go to My Computer/right click for properties.
Then Performance and click on Graphics.
There’s a scale there to slow down graphic acceleration if there are problems with the mouse pointer. I have to keep mine down a notch to keep the mouse under control. (Logitech Trackball).
Another possible source of info:
http://www.annoyances.org

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Kingdom
Oct 29, 2004
"Nev" wrote in
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No pattern to it whatsoever: it does it when it does it. The cursor spontaneously zips to the upper left of my screen. I’m running XP Pro, the mouse is on a patterned mousepad, and I keep the pad and mouse clean. Yet it jumps without any reason I know of.

What’s the fix for this?

[I’ve asked on <microsoft.public.hardware> but no one answered]

new mouse pad

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Youth is wasted on the young!
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bagal
Oct 29, 2004
I agree totally

youth is wasted on the young

(is it early Greek?)

Aerticus

"Kingdom" wrote in message
"Nev" wrote in
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No pattern to it whatsoever: it does it when it does it. The cursor spontaneously zips to the upper left of my screen. I’m running XP Pro, the mouse is on a patterned mousepad, and I keep the pad and mouse clean. Yet it jumps without any reason I know of.

What’s the fix for this?

[I’ve asked on <microsoft.public.hardware> but no one answered]

new mouse pad

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Youth is wasted on the young!
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Mike Russell
Oct 29, 2004
Aerticus wrote:
I agree totally

youth is wasted on the young

OTOH, we each get to waste our share. 🙂

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bagal
Oct 29, 2004
As a Greek god I wish I could waste more of my own share

It is probably wasted enough already?

Aerticus

"Mike Russell" wrote in message
Aerticus wrote:
I agree totally

youth is wasted on the young

OTOH, we each get to waste our share. 🙂

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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

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Gadgets
Oct 30, 2004
Besides mouse pad, try display properties/advanced/troubleshoot and drop the hardware acceleration for grafx… your system might not be keeping up with you.

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