Mouse cursor is occasionally jumping for a few seconds on the screen. Reason ?

J

Jason Stacy

Since a few weeks it occurs a few times a day that my mouse cursor is suddenly jumping heavily
from one position on the screen to others. This jumping "session" last a couple of seconds and then
the mouse is working fine again for 1-2 hours.

No, it is not a virus. I checked my system several times with multiple anti virus tools.
No virus/trojan is living.

Now I am trying to investigate the reason:

Is this a hardware or software defect ?

If hardware: Is this a mouse or a mainboard defect?
Could it be that when the CPU gets to hot these arbitrary jumps are produced by the CPU ?

Jason
 
M

Man-wai Chang

Jason said:
Since a few weeks it occurs a few times a day that my mouse cursor is suddenly jumping heavily
from one position on the screen to others. This jumping "session" last a couple of seconds and then
the mouse is working fine again for 1-2 hours.

wireless mouse?
 
R

Ron Hardin

I vote for a new mouse, because that fixed it for me on this 10-year-old win95 machine.

Also it's a chance to go optical, and get rid of the dust-gathering mouse ball.

YMMV.
 
S

SingaporeWebDesign

Hello,

It is a common occurrence with optical mice. (why? maybe sensor tries to
keep track of your movements)

Try using the mouse on a more non-reflective surface.
 
J

Juan Perez

Hi Jason:

I not sure the model of mouse you have. If it is a normal ball mouse or if
your are using a "led Laser" mouse. First I will try with a spare mouse you
may have.If it works OK, I will try to clean the ball mouse from dust and
see how it works. If you are using a laser one, try to use another surface
were you displace the mouse.

Let us know how are you doing.
 
B

Black Baptist

=?Utf-8?B?SWFu?= rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:
Patterned mousemat with optical mouse?

I had that happen it turned out the cpu was over heating.
 
T

Tim Kuzniar

I have two computers on a home network. One is a Dell Optiplex 745, the
other is a custom build.

Two days ago, both machines were fine. Today, without changing anything
or adding any software or tweaking any hardware -- one machine can see
all of the shared folders of the other and access them perfectly. The
second mechine can see the shared folders of the first, but now is not
able to access them. I get the error message about "Folder not
accessible..." etc.

I checked all the network settings and the share settings and nothing
has changed.
Anyone have a guess as to why this is happening...?
 

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