Mouse has mind of its own

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I'm running a home network with two XP home edition SP2 systems. The problem
started a couple of days ago when I sat in horror watching in horror the
cursor on my screen move around randomly clicking on icons while my hands
were not touching the mouse. I litteraly had to fight this phantom mouse for
control of the cursor and click on my target before the cursor was whisked
away from me.

After a little troubleshooting, I realized that my cursor was mirroring the
movement of the mouse on the system on which my wife was working. Her system
works normally and there is no indication in performance or otherwhise that
she is also controlling the curson on my system, which also happens to be
the gateway to the Internet.

I have worked on computers for many years and right now I'm completely
stumped at how serial mouse device can control a cursor on another client.
We are not running pcanywhere or anything like that. Does anybody have a
clue to this problem?

- Thanks
 
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Hans-Georg Michna

I'm running a home network with two XP home edition SP2 systems. The problem
started a couple of days ago when I sat in horror watching in horror the
cursor on my screen move around randomly clicking on icons while my hands
were not touching the mouse. I litteraly had to fight this phantom mouse for
control of the cursor and click on my target before the cursor was whisked
away from me.

After a little troubleshooting, I realized that my cursor was mirroring the
movement of the mouse on the system on which my wife was working. Her system
works normally and there is no indication in performance or otherwhise that
she is also controlling the curson on my system, which also happens to be
the gateway to the Internet.

I have worked on computers for many years and right now I'm completely
stumped at how serial mouse device can control a cursor on another client.
We are not running pcanywhere or anything like that. Does anybody have a
clue to this problem?

Hehe, funny and almost incredible story!

If you get no further replies, then that only means that nobody
else has a clue either. I certainly don't have any idea and only
wanted to reassure you that your message is being seen.

Hope it doesn't happen too often.

Hans-Georg
 
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Guest

Do you have remote connection enabled? If so, try disabling it.
I had a similar weird problem several months ago-after demonstrating remote
desktop to a client, then disconnecting, I installed a printer on the clients
computer. When I got home I discovered this printer had also been installed
 
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Hans-Georg Michna

Do you have remote connection enabled? If so, try disabling it.
I had a similar weird problem several months ago-after demonstrating remote
desktop to a client, then disconnecting, I installed a printer on the clients
computer. When I got home I discovered this printer had also been installed
on my remote computer. Never got any kind of explanation for that, either.

Hugh,

I thought of that, but Windows XP Home Edition does not have the
Remote Desktop host function, only the client function.

But who knows, perhaps it's only hidden and sometimes likes to
wake up. :)-)

Hans-Georg
 
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Hans-Georg Michna

do you use wireless mouse?

Wilson,

ha, why didn't I think of that? This is the only explanation for
the phenomenon that I can imagine, now that you mention it. I
bet you hit the nail on the head.

The explanation is, of course, that both users use the same type
of wireless mouse, and they run on the same channel.

Hans-Georg
 

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