Uncommanded Cursor Movement

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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
 
Does uninstalling SP3 correct the issue?

Scott wrote:

> 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
>
>
 
"Scott" <scott@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:ejGz3qOxIHA.3968@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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
 
I don't want to uninstall SP3 because it fixed another problem.

"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eHc4raPxIHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Does uninstalling SP3 correct the issue?
>
> Scott wrote:
>
>> 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
>
 
I changed mouse pads and that greatly reduced the occurrence of the problem.

Thanks
Scott
Los Angeles
 
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