Cursor from Hell

[Peter VH]

I have windows 2000 on my Dell laptop. Several times a
week my cursor will begin moving on it's own usually to
the side or top of the screen. (I know, holy Ouja board,
Batman) This happens both with my touch pad and when I
have my computer docked and am using my wireless mouse.
Sometimes rebooting solves the problem but other times it
doesn't and I just give up and try much later. It has
always eventually begun to behave normally again at some
point. Any suggestions as I'd really like to stop cursing
my cursor? Thanks in advance for any help.
Peter VH

 

[Roger Johnston]

Don't know if this will help, but my wife has wireless
mouse and when the battery gets low, it acts just like
what you are describing.

Good luck,
Roger

 

[LCI]

I've had that problem on my current Dell laptop, and all of my previous IBM
thinkpads. It actually has to do with the track point (the little stick
thing). I'm not sure why it does it exactly, but they ocaisonally start to
drift. I've found that if I wiggle it around a bit it tends to help, but
sometimes you just need to let it go away. I doesn't hurt anything and won't
cause a problem unless it causes you to click on the wrong thing. If you
don't use your track point at all, you might want to consider disabling it
all together.

--Jared

 

[Peter VH]

You were right it was the eraser mouse (pencil mouse,
stick mouse). I reproduced the Ouja board effect by
playing with the eraser mouse or striking the surrounding
keys. A good cleaning solved the problem . Thanks for
the suggestions. P