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Summary: Bizarre actions from your mouse may mean its imminent death, however there are a few less extreme causes of sensitivity and other odd actions. My mouse is super sensitive and seems to do things on its own. What do I do? Most of us have come to rely very heavily on our mouse - even those of us such as myself who are still mostly keyboard users. And when it starts to act up, it can be a very serious issue and an annoying one. Let's look at a few things. • The most immediate and obvious thing that comes to mind is the hardware itself:
If you have a chance, swap your mouse with another. I have a small graveyard of old mice that I hang onto for just this purpose. They all work, they're just old and dirty, but they come in very handy to determine if a problem I'm seeing is my current mouse or something else. It is worth checking your settings as well. Unfortunately exactly how will vary dramatically depending on the manufacturer. In Control Panel should be an item labeled Mouse or similar. Items to look for are things like "sensitivity" or "pointer speed". Review the button assignments to make sure that they're correct. Mouse move options like "snap to" will cause the mouse to move to specific points under certain conditions. These options can easily confuse if you're not prepared for them, so make sure they're what you want or turn them off. But to be totally honest, the type of wild behavior described is more often than not your mouse's death knell. Related:
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I don't know if this is what you mean - nut my mouse tends to click multiple times since i upgraded tp XP pro. It drives me crazy. I can't get it to stop, even though I tried multiple things and settings. It makes me machine useless for gaming, which is what I want to do.
Posted by: putergoddess at February 16, 2007 6:27 PMErratic mouse pointer tried everything still screwing up only thing i can think of is the bios I tried to put win xp on my computer but its a sony viao slimtop and it caused more problems so i got a new hard drive and memory is now 256 but still problems went back to win me but the bios is still for xp is there a way to get the bios back to win me?
Posted by: mark at June 18, 2007 7:04 AMSome optical mice use a cheaply mass produced optical sensor that picks up odd imperfections in a hard semi reflective surface. Try using a solid colored mousepad, preferably black or red. I've ran through the circuit schematics and traced the circuits of several mice that have been reported to have the erratic behavior phenomenon, and they all have the exact sensor and circuitry, and are all corrected by a using a dark solid colored mouse pad. Although if you lift the mouse off the desk at a slight angle you may still get a jumping effect unless you back trace the circuit from the tracking l.e.d. and short the transistor that changes the brightness to save power.
Posted by: Sparky77 at October 26, 2007 3:42 PMHey it worked I just removed the mouse pad and used the desk top. I looked at the pad (that is a Dell)and it had damaged spots, dirt, and high and low places. I had cleaned it not long ago and didn't have much dirt on it. I think the pad itself was my problem. Thank Leo I was about ready to buy a new mouse.
Posted by: truman at November 18, 2007 11:56 AMTruman
i have this problem. i never used the touchpad mouse on my laptop, i used one that connected to the computer in the back. my sister got me a wireless one for christmas and ever since i started using it, i had this problem. i've cleaned it, it has brand new batteries, did everything you mentioned. the thing is, i can unplug this mouse, and the pointer continues to go to the top right corner of the screen even with the touchpad or any other mouse i use. i think it's my computer. it's a Dell Inspiron 8100. what's wrong?
Posted by: Karman at December 31, 2007 8:57 AMI had this problem (optical mouse cursor moving on its own) and I solved it just now. I found that I had another mouse connected to my computer (which I had stopped using because its right click was not working, but had forgotten to unplug). Just now I unplugged the old mouse and ... no problemo.
Posted by: SAJANTT at January 20, 2008 12:16 AMi think the mouse problem is due to a damaged pin connector, where your mouse connects on the computer.
Posted by: sam at February 8, 2008 9:46 PMI am using a desktop computer and a optic wired mouse. Basically I am trying to find a way to solve my problem which is; my mouse makes its way to the left hand side of my screen. Its not just a constant movement, its like two steps left and one step right over and over. when it reaches the left hand side of my screen its still going on, still jumping. I unplugged my mouse and it was still happening any ideas?
Posted by: Ben at February 29, 2008 11:34 AMI had this problem before. I found that it was my graphics tablet causing the problems. I had stuff on top of the tablet and it was causing my mouse to move constantly to one side. If you have a graphics tablet make sure that nothing is ontop of it, or even better, make sure its unplugged if not in use. Hope it solves some of your cases.
Posted by: Nebo at February 29, 2008 11:48 AMhey! for the touchpad users i found that in cold situations there is a lot of jumping around with the pointer. i rubbed back and forth quickly to create friction and the symptoms went away! good luck
Posted by: Fred Kores at June 5, 2008 6:08 PM