mouse pointer drifts without moving mouse

[Bill Tisdale]

My mouse is drifting across my laptop screen on its on.
It can be somewhat controlled by my touch pad but not
workable.

I have tried loading Dell's updated driver. External
mouse drifts even more or sometimes does not work
period.
I spent an hour with Dell technical trying all of their
suggested fixes to no avail.

I have reloaded windows xp in repair mode but did not
work. It seemed to stop until I updated XP's critical
pack 1 but started again. I'm not sure that the
updating
is connected.

Before doing a format and reinstall I'm looking for
other
things to try. Has anyone ever seen this problem?

..Have you tried buying a new mouse? or at least swapping
it with another one.Sometimes the best fixes are also the
simplest

 

[oldone]

You may have a trojan virus. Worth a check, go to this
site for a free scan..
http://www.trojanscan.com/

 

[Robert Wells]

I am having the same problem, also the tool bar lights up
and flickers across to the right. I am just beginning to
troubleshoot the problem, with no success. If you or I
find the cause, PLEASE notify.Message-----