Uncommanded Cursor Movement

[Scott]

When moving the cursor, it will suddenly jump to the side of the screen or
the edge of the window that I am working in. It seems to happen in all
windows: IE7, Firefox, Outlook Express, Excel

I first noticed this problem after the March XP update. In late April, it
appeared to go away. It came back with SP3. I have changed the mouse, but it
does not influence the problem.

Details.
Dell optical mouse connected via USB port (I am using this one on another
computer with no problems)
HP optical mouse connected via standard green connector
Dell Dimension 4700 Desktop, Pentium 4, 3GHz, Feb 2005
Win XP, Home, SP3

Any help is appreciated.

Scott
Los Angeles

 

[Bob I]

Does uninstalling SP3 correct the issue?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

When moving the cursor, it will suddenly jump to the side of the screen or
the edge of the window that I am working in. It seems to happen in all
windows: IE7, Firefox, Outlook Express, Excel

I first noticed this problem after the March XP update. In late April, it
appeared to go away. It came back with SP3. I have changed the mouse, but
it does not influence the problem.

Details.
Dell optical mouse connected via USB port (I am using this one on another
computer with no problems)
HP optical mouse connected via standard green connector
Dell Dimension 4700 Desktop, Pentium 4, 3GHz, Feb 2005
Win XP, Home, SP3

Any help is appreciated.

Scott
Los Angeles

Optical mice will often do this if the surface they are on is even slightly
reflective. So the question will be, is there a mousepad in use?

HTH
-pk

 

[Scott]

I don't want to uninstall SP3 because it fixed another problem.

 

[Scott]

I changed mouse pads and that greatly reduced the occurrence of the problem.

Thanks
Scott
Los Angeles