Mouse has mind od it's own.

[Videot]

My Microsoft cordless wireless mouse died a few weeks back. I replaced
it with a new Belkin cordless wireless mouse & keyboard. These were
running OK until this morning when the cursor seemed to suddenly have a
mind of it's own. You could move it left & it could move in any
direction. Sometimes it you didn't even touch the mouse the cursor
would slowly move around the screen. I replaced the batteries but the
problem continued.

I thought that maybe I had picked up either a virus or some spyware even
though both are 100% up to date & are run daily. Since I could not even
get the mouse to move to the start button so as to turn the machine off
I pressed the reset button.

When I booted up again everything was back to normal. Just to be sure I
did another full system scan of both the anti virus & 2 different
spyware products but these turned up nothing. Do you have any ides as
to what the problem might have been?

 

[peterk]

I understand that sometimes the video card interferes with the operation on
a wireless mouse.
I have this occassionaly and dont know of a cure.But your seems worse than
mine.
peterk

 

[Guest]

My Microsoft cordless wireless mouse died a few weeks back. I
replaced it with a new Belkin cordless wireless mouse & keyboard.
These were running OK until this morning when the cursor seemed to
suddenly have a mind of it's own. You could move it left & it could
move in any direction. Sometimes it you didn't even touch the mouse
the cursor would slowly move around the screen. I replaced the
batteries but the problem continued.

I thought that maybe I had picked up either a virus or some spyware
even though both are 100% up to date & are run daily. Since I could
not even get the mouse to move to the start button so as to turn the
machine off I pressed the reset button.

When I booted up again everything was back to normal. Just to be sure
I did another full system scan of both the anti virus & 2 different
spyware products but these turned up nothing. Do you have any ides as
to what the problem might have been?

They lost sync. Did you notice the buttons on the bottom of the mouse
and on the receiver?