sticky cursor

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weekend

my cursor has increasingly become 'sticky' - it sits there & doesn't want to
move, or it skips around. I 'release' it by alternately clicking right & left
until it's mobile again, but it's happening more +& more often. rebooting
doesn't help. Please advise. Thanks, ingrid
 
weekend said:
my cursor has increasingly become 'sticky' - it sits there &
doesn't want to move, or it skips around. I 'release' it by
alternately clicking right & left until it's mobile again, but it's
happening more +& more often. rebooting doesn't help. Please
advise.
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Change the batteries in your mouse...
Move the receiver closer to the mouse...
Replace the mouse...

Don't have batteries?
It's not a cordless mouse?
It's permanently attached to the computer?

How would anyone here know that? *grin*

Please provide more information.

Computer type (desktop, laptop, netbook)?
Windows XP _______ Edition?
Service pack __?
Mouse type (wired, wireless, touchpad, trackball, etc)?
Mouse name brand and model, if known?
Latest hardware device drivers are/are not installed for said mouse?
 
my cursor has increasingly become 'sticky' - it sits there & doesn't want to
move, or it skips around. I 'release' it by alternately clicking right & left
until it's mobile again, but it's happening more +& more often. rebooting
doesn't help. Please advise. Thanks, ingrid
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Almost certainly this is an issue with your mouse, not with Windows.
Mouse dirty? Need batteries (if it's a cordless mouse)?
 
weekend said:
my cursor has increasingly become 'sticky' - it sits there & doesn't want to
move, or it skips around. I 'release' it by alternately clicking right & left
until it's mobile again, but it's happening more +& more often. rebooting
doesn't help. Please advise. Thanks, ingrid
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Clean the lint, hair, or other junk piled up in front of the LED for an
optical mouse. Blowing out with compressed may not work if it is hair (get
a tweezers).

Guess the brand and model of your mouse is a secret. Okay, so then are also
further responses.
 
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