System Restore questions

[The Old Timer]

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?

Thanks in advance

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Old Timer.

I don't know about the Belkin mouse, but my Microsoft cordless has a couple
of "connect" buttons - one on the mouse itself and one on the little sending
unit that plugs into the computer. Sometimes (rarely) these get out of sync
and I need to press one or both of the buttons to re-establish contact.

In your case, restarting the computer probably re-synced them.

RC