Nov 01, 2016 I installed Windows 10 on day one or two of the upgrade and have been using it since on my Toshiba 64 bit laptop. It was an upgrade from 8.1. Trying to explain the erratic mouse a little better. As I said earlier, the mouse starts doing it's own thing. The mouse will not stay where it is. It jumps to the top of the screen and starts.
Become a and go ad-free! Optical mice are great – I love ’em. No more dirty mouse balls (and the jokes that go with them). Over time I’ve converted all of my mice to optical, both wired or wireless. But what I’ve found with optical mice is that they are surprisingly sensitive to the surface they’re on. On a bad surface they’ll often behave exactly as you describe. They seem to not only stop responding, but occasionally misread movement and dart off in completely unexpected directions like a mouse scurrying for cover.
The best surfaces for the mouse would be something with a slight texture, and a constant surface. Make sure there’s no high contrast text or images as well. After not using mouse pads for a long time, I’ve found that they’re typically the best solution and very helpful in keeping my optical mice behaving. Several technologies run wireless mice and keyboards, so you should be able to find the features that you want.
First, we have to be sure that it's actually the mouse freezing, and not the whole computer. Once that's decided, we'll look for solutions. Occasionally, the Windows taskbar can end up on either side (or even the top of) your screen. I'll show you how to move the taskbar bar back to the bottom.
If your mouse and keyboard stop working, you may be able to repair the situation - if you can overcome one huge obstacle. Posted: March 2, 2005 in: Shortlink: TAGS. I was having an interesting time. I’m on a laptop at college, so I had the opportunity to borrow many different known good mice from other people, and even just use the touch pad, and still the mouse would jump around randomly, click at random, or just stop clicking for minutes at a time. Finally went into the device manager and deleted all of the mice drivers (there appeared to be an unexplainable, extra one present), then plugged in my mouse again and it works fine now. So for anyone who KNOWS it isn’t just the mousing surface or low batteries, I would endorse this course of action to rid you of your demonic possesion. I am using a keyboard and mouse set, the Microsoft Desktop Keyboard Elite and Intellimouse Explorer 2 to be exact.
There have been time when my screen, whether I was viewing webpages or Word pages and the screen kept scrolling down to the last page and staying there. The scroll wheel refused to allow me to scroll back up, nor could I use the scroll bar at the side of the screen to get back up.
The system said my mouse was fine and batteries were fine. Many F words later, plus a couple of C words, I picked up my keyboard to look at the serial number and the screen freaked out, I took the batteries out and tested them on a battery tester and all three were dead, I replaced these with brand new ones and the screen stopped being pyscho. Sometimes it is not alway the wireless mouse, but the f.ing keyboard.
It seems that since I installed Service Pack 2, the on screen battery gauge for the wireless mouse and keyboard does not work with SP2. The reason thet cursor jumps all around has to do with Microsoft products running in the background like Outlook. The problem is, the application Outlook springs to life to check for mail. No big deal, but they do not do a good job of saving the current cursor pointer.
I believe Iternet Explorer does the samething. Microsoft is not very user friendly, I.E. If not written by us, screw the other application. When I am doing something important that requires good mouse cursor control, I turn off Outlook. When Outlook is active, even in the background, the mouse becomes very cumbersome. Sometimes it seems to go, then gets stuck.
You can really see this effect if play one of the card games, like solitaire which was written by them. They do not do a good job in the message passing from app. To restore the cursor back to its proper place. That is why it seems to jump around. Not the driver, not the hardware, just that master of virus software developer MicroSoft. I just got a new desk with a pull out keyboard drawer that doesn’t allow enough room to use my regular mouse pad.
I started using only the laminated top of the keyboard tray as a pad. Without my regular mouse pad, the mouse (wired, optical) began acting very strange – jumping around erratically – became almost useless. Drove me crazy! I knew I needed a mouse pad, but there was not enough room no matter what style I found.
After reading the comments here, I got the idea to fold up a piece of plain white paper (sized to fit the small space available on the keyboard tray), and voila! The mouse immediately went right back to its old dependable self. I now believe it was “reading” the fake wood grain in my new laminated desk.
Many thanks to the person who mentioned a blank piece of white paper! Welp, I’ve now spent the evening researching this problem. It seems that it is very common and not specific to my “Generic Logitech Laser Mouse w/ PS/2 cord.” It is USB but came with the PS/2 port plug already in so I don’t have to take up my preciousss USBs.
I’ve been playing the Online MMO, Lord of the Rings Online. This features an ability to walk by pressing the right then left mouse buttons and ability to steer and scroll wheel the camera as well. However my mouse has started (for a month if not longer.) to do this jumping and causing my character to go into a 3000 degree spinning fit until I release my mouse buttons. (Really freaky when your character is trying to avoid falling off a cliff by just a few meters. Phew) It’s also affecting The SIMS2 and my Internet Explorer web browsing. Upon my research, I’ve come across many posts about jumping mouse cursors, who have updated cordless mice drivers, who have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers, visited Microsoft’s website for drivers, bought completely new mice, changed some of the different settings in Control Panel, changed their USB mouse into a PS/2, and some folks even moved their Wacom tablets or wireless keyboards farther away to avoid odd interferences, changing to a more solid colored mouse pad non-glossy and just so many multiple ideas.
And none of them seem to have come back saying that their mouse has stopped jumping, in fact one person kept coming back and still has the demon-possessed jumping mouse. (There was even some joking to call a priest, OY!) Personally I’ve adjusted my mouse settings in control panel, and it’s okay for now, but I am only typing and not gaming at the moment. I’ve gone through a few mousepads, and this problem was occuring before I got this new freebie glossy-ish one.
It’s glossy though and I’m thinking a solid colored (felt?) mat would also improve performance if not help eliminate my mouse problem. My cords are always getting tangled onto of my desk (mouse, headset, keyboard, speakers) and I was not sure if maybe something snapped or broke in my mouse’s cord. No point to my post other than to say I’m glad I’m not alone with this curiousity and find it very annoying. While some peoples problems seem to be fixed by these simple solutions it would seem my problem is much more complicated. My problem occurs when I move the mouse. For example, I move my mouse from left to right and it randomly jumps to the bottom or the top or the corner.you get the picture.
I’ve tried everything i can think of mouse pads, drivers, cleaning, and every sugestion mentioned here and I’ve even updated my bios. It would seeem that microsoft would have the solution to this problem but they aren’t giving the answers for free. I have had this same problem for years over a number of computers (and mice).
The mouse suddenly takes off, quickly in an upward direction usually leading to the top left, then spirals quickly around the screen to the right, then down and then inward to rest nearly in the middle of the screen. And it all happens way faster than my hand could move. I call it the psycho mouse. It has happened to several computers I have at home but has not happened at work.
Could it be related to the fact my house is near a radio tower? Everyone in the office here has just received new mousemats with our own branding on it and 3 of us sitting beside each other have experienced erratic cursor movement straight away. The mat has a shiny plastic finish to it. My previous mat has a kind of textured cloth covering which worked fine.
Someone else here mentioned cell phones interfering with mice, and I can confirm that this is also true. It affects my USB mouse if the phone is on top of the mouse cable on the desk. The cursor moves in a straight line upwards in small jittery movements when the phone rings, just like how you would hear the interference in a speaker. Makes you wonder what else a mobile phone could interfere with! (you really.should.
turn them off on airplanes!). I just have it when the mouse jumps to left or right or bottom left or right corners. Sometimes it jumps between the corners, top bottom, left, or right. And when it jumps it presses mouse buttons. Most of the time it’s nothing, other times it’s a left click but its also done the right and the scroll button (which is annoying) I tried leaving the mouse disconnected over night the hooking the batteries up again and turning on the PC.
I’ve tried using the mouse on the computer desk vinyl, even using my hand as a mouse pad ? I think I’m going back to the balls. I looked in my Device Manager on my computer. Under the “Mice and other pointing devices” I noticed that there was a mouse that I didn’t use so I uninstalled it and it fixed my problem. Note: If your mouse problem is really bad, here are some keyboard only instructions: 1. Use the windows button + pause/break to go to System Properties. You should then be able to use TAB and the arrow keys to get to the hardware tab. While on the hardware tab, press TAB until the “device manager” button is highlighted and then press ENTER.
In Device Manager, press TAB once and then use the arrow keys to navigate down to “Mice and other pointing devices” 5. Press the right arrow to expand the tree. Highlight the unused mouse and then press Alt+A and then press U to uninstall the mouse you are not using.
Press enter to confirm the uninstall. This is a crude method to do it but it worked for me. This may not solve everyone’s problem but it’s worth a try. One erratic problem which I faced with a laptop was that the mouse pad seemed to accept a double click instead of a single click no matter how slow I made the Windows double click setting in Contol Panel Mouse section.
It was really irritating & I decided to reinstall the complete OS from scratch when I discovered the cause. Guess, The problem was that I was connected to an Online UPS. This UPS was giving Poor Quality Power Output which made the Laptop run smoothly but disturbed the Mouse. After getting the UPS out of the Power Circuit between the Laptop & Mains, normal working was restored. Lucky though, my laptop’s mouse pad did not fry.
Secondly, Optical Mice do have a problem of the Mouse Pointer running in a Particular Direction. The most common cause being debris between the surface & optical sensor of the mouse. I have a SOLUTION to the jumping cursor problem. At least for my situation. From my research I discovered that the Logitech mouse is incompatible with some versions of XP.
I then found a switch on my Logitech settings panel that allows me to select either SETPOINT, Logitech’s software, or the OS, to govern my mouse’s speed and acceleration. This setting makes all the difference in the world. If you have a logitech mouse, find the panel that lets you decide which system will govern the mouse’s SPEED AND ACCELERATION, and select OS, not Logitech’s Setpoint program. In my case, the dancing mouse left immediately upon making this change. Rob Davis said: “someone is remotely snooping on your screen” With all due respect, that’s probably true for 1 in a zillion cases. But way-to-go for adding to the common user’s Internet paranoia (sorry, I can’t avoid sarcasm in cases like this). For those truly concerned though, ignore Rob Davis’ comment and know that, a cheap mouse (like every mouse that comes with new computers) will be prone to jumpy pointers.
My rule of thumbif it costs less than 15 – 20 dollars at Staples or Wal-mart (or if it came with your computer), it’s going to be jumpy. My case probably similar to Amelie, i don’t have any external mouse attached to my tablepc, just the touchpad. And i am not even touching the pad. I am just sitting here glaring at the screen, when the mouse start to jump around, it either like the bottom corner left or bottom corner right of the screen. And not only jump, it also click (left click) on the spot.i have to move the task bar on the top of the screen so it won’t click on the START button. AV return no virus, the behavior is not persistent, sometime it just let go and sometimes it suddenly became very erratic.
Dear Leo, Although most of the common solutions to mouse pointer and scroll jump were covered, many times the culprit is the driver that has been reinstalled every time you plug in a different or the same mouse in a USB adapter meaning the registry bcomes cluttered with many instances of the driver(s). Look it up and you will find the manual registry removal sequence at Microsoft for the registry. Not everyone is hacked or using a reflective surface.
I too was troubled with a jumping mouse and found the solution to the poor design of the mouse driver installation into the registry of Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista. Matter of fact this problem has plagues every microsoft laser mouse to hit the market. I could be wrong. Most mistakes I repeat a few times before I solved the mistery and I am not suggesting that the average computer person dwell into the registry.
In my experice it can be a small hair or dust particle caught in the led’s hole at the botton of the mouse. Blow it away. But, why does the mouse driver accept these obvious data-errors?
You.can not. possibly move the mouse 10 inches in 1 microsecond. The mouse driver shoud neglect these supersonic mousemovements imo, and dampen the accelerations. If the driver ‘knows’ the weights of your hand mouse and the forces that generally are applied, (changes in) accelerations and speeds can be capped. h. In addition to the Surface issues and a hair or dust mote that the Led illuminates, I’ve also found that the USB connector can become corroded with a thin oxide layer that can quickly change resistance – sending the mouse into flight – even though you are not moving the connector or cord. The vibrations of the computer chassis from fans is sufficient to trigger this.
I find it most often after a few years, with the seasonal changes from winter to summer or summer to winter. Unplugging and re-plugging several times cleans the connections for the next few years.
My mouse pointer jumps all over my screen. I’ve done all the suggestions and it won’t stop. It randomly clicks and opens my web browser, random photo folders and even my messenger service.
I’ve unplugged it and tried to use the fingerpad on my laptop and it still jumps all overit never stops. I’ve asked everyone I know to please assist because its a problem that just started about 2 weeks ago.
My mouse is a laser pointer so its not an issue of “dirt” my mouse pad is clean and I don’t have any pets. I’ve disabled and reinstalled my driver and “rolled back” with problems still. Please help, I’ll pay anything! I had a wireless mouse up until today. My mouse issues were when a new page was loading or I tried to click on certain links on certain web pages (not all web pages)the mouse jumped and I would be unable to get it to stay.
Now I am wired again and it’s not jumping around when a page is being loaded, but is still doing the other things. I’ve cleaned my mouse pad with no improvements. I’ve even tried just using the desk top with no pad. All old mouse programs were deleted and all possible scans/cleaners were ran. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Im thinking there could be some other underlying cause.( could be any of the already mentioned btw Jennifer best have you scanned with an online virus scanner to see if theres a resident malware/spyware/virus? Try trend home call ) anyway im thinking it would be useful if eveyone with problems stated their hardware manufacturer for both the pc/laptop & mouse & age of hardware.
A recent pc i bought (3 years old 2nd hand unit-bit of a mistake really) anyway mines a DELL & have the same problems- now Ive been reading & Ive come to the conclusion that the capacitors maybe bad-even though visibly they look OK (I havent got a multimeter to check) but internally they couldve dried out- this bad capacitor problem is common on PC’s that get hot from a lot of usage- I wonder if its the same cause for laptops suffering from same problem.anyways I just stopped on my travels-regards & I hope to visit again someday ?. Hi, I’ve recently bought the wireless optical desktop 1000 and had a similar problem (my mouse either spontaneously jumps or middle-clicks and starts scrolling around), I haven’t found a complete solution but I’m pretty sure what the problems are! I’m not an expert on mice, but I’ve worked with optical and radio gear before.
One of the skipping problems is due to the mouse optical position mechanism – going over a surface that gives sharp changes in reflectance due to shininess, scratches or even color can cause a change in the signal and a jump occurs. Better mice probably have filters and things to compensate for this, but cheap ones will be, well, cheaper. I’ve covered the wood grain of my desk with a piece of paper and thrown away my zebra skin mouse mat and it seems happier.
This only accounts for movement though, not the random clicking! The other problem is radio interference from the receiver. I know my Dell power supply and dvd unit chuck out EMF like nobody’s business, and sure enough if I put the receiver right by the computer the mouse becomes unusable. I’ve moved the receiver as far away from the computer and the stereo as I can and it does seem better, but not completely healed. Sois there anything else I can do?
My mouse was fine up until yesterday morning. It turns out that the mouse w/o batteries and w/o network hooked up, will move about as if someone were moving it, clicking here and there, resizing windows, and scrolling. Now I actually already resetted my I.P.
Address but that didn’t help. Done: (1)No Network (unplugged)(No internet) (2)Microsoft infared optical mouse w/o batteries (3)Mouse precision checked and re-checked (4)Drivers Updated (blah, blah, blah) (5)Malware scan completed (6)Systemantic protection (full scan) completed (7)Restarted Computer (8)Resetted IP address Now I would say my AMD 3400 80Gb desktop has been compromised, but if someone were wired in they would not be able to use they’re program on my computer w/o being wired to the network! Also what’s being clicked on doesn’t make much sense! What information can you provide that’s not elementary! OK I have got a bloody asinine problem with this HP mouse!
I am running Windows 7 on an HP Pavilion PC which I only got a few months ago. I use four different browsers: IE9 (Beta) Opera 10.62 Firefox 3.6.10 Google Chrome 6.0.472.63 My mouse worka OK on the first three but on Chrome it jumps all over the place and it only began doing this about two hours ago!
Inside a dialogue box or a message block like this one it turns into a blinking ‘I’ however anywhere else on the screen it’s a blinking white arrow! Someone suggested I use a mousepad only I already do and have never not used one. My mouse is not wireless but it does have a red light on the bottom when you turn it over so I suppose it’s an ‘optical’ mouse? Anyway even when I am not using any browsers at all like when I am installing updates and stuff like that the mouse is perfect. Go over to Chrome and all pandemonium is set loose! Short of throwing it at the wall I have tried everything I can think of but all has been to no avail whatsoever. Can someone please help me out before I go baka nuts?
Thanks as always and have a nice day. So here I am, battling with the same problem of the erratic mouse. However, I’ve just bought and got my laptop literally three days ago. After setting up the OS and ready to use the laptop, I noticed the mouse is not working so smoothly, sometimes it doesn’t move and other times it’s just moving everywhere; I have to try to swipe my finger on the mousepad so many times to be able to move it to where I want. I first thought because my finger is not moist enough, put on lotion, tried again, nothing. Then I thought maybe the sensitivity needs to be adjusted, did that, didn’t solve the problem. Checked the properties of the mouse and there’s only one present, checked the driver and it’s up to date.
I’m not sure what else is there to use to diagnose. Is it because I got a cheap laptop? (2Go PC QW6) I’m at my wit’s end with this mouse’s behavior. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I have a toshiba tablet. It has touch screen enabled. I have calibrated the touch screen to no avail.
The cursor is fine when clicking on an icon. As I move to the right the cursor moves further from the point of contact with the screen. The cursor ends up being 2 to 3 inches to the left from where my finger is on the screen. Same scenario with the stylus pen or usb optical mouse.
If i start from the left and move back to the right, the mouse cross hairs will align itself directly under the pen or touch like it should. But if i start to move to the left is slowly starts inching further and further from the center of the pen or finger. It seems like the calibration to the left of the screen is off by 2 to 3 inches to the left. The right side is dead on. I have looked at cursor options under control panel. Tried to calibrate the touch screen but still nothing. Not sure what to do at this time.
Any help appreciated. I have this problem sometimes. My cursor doesn’t want to move, or it will only move (slowly) in one direction. It’s like it doesn’t want to go to certain areas.
And the mouse is normally very high performance but this issue will randomly happen. Turns out, it happens when tiny little hairs get stuck inside the place with the laser/sensor. So if you’re having problems with your optical mouse, check for that. You can suck the hairs out pretty easily and just try to keep your mouse area nice and clean. Ive experienced this a few times and replaced mats and drivers, really annoying, then something occurred to me after a minorslip with the TV remote!
I accidentally hit a tv remote button on my desk, it was pointing at my right hand on the mouse – not at the tv. The tv channel changed all the same. So took my hand off and retested – channel didn’t change Lifted the mouse off the mat, the pointer stopped moving randomly, put it back down and the jumping started again. So I removed the mat and put the mouse on the desk (artificial wood grain pattern – it had something to work on) and the mouse pointer was fine.
I then use adhesive tape to strip any dust/debris off the mouse mat – nothing that would leave any residue of course. After the clean up the mouse pointer was fine and there was no random movement. I suspect this is about debris build up on optical mats, Fine skin/ dust particles may be causing this grief more than anything else.
I’ve started turning the mouse mat over when not in use with and so far the problem hasn’t occurred again. That may may help some of you out there. I have an iMAC, purchased in 2011 I believe. I think I picked up a mouse virus. When I “wake up” the machine and try to log into my user profile, my mouse starts leaving a permanent trail on my screen and I cannot enter my password into my user profile. If I drag the mouse all across my screen it will completely fill up the screen with this useless material, blocking the entire screen. The only way I can get around it, is to turn the iMac off for a minute and then turn it back on.
Then the “virus” does not reappear and I can log in. The mouse problem will not occur until a day or two later and I must turn the machine off and on again to get rid of it. Have Kaspersky Internet Security software installed, but it cannot seem to identify this mouse cursor “virus”.
I do not sense that the “virus” is harmful, but I am no expert either. Any suggestions to get rid of this thing? I’ve been experiencing the bouncing pointer – very annoying! I saw where someone had two mouse (mice?) installs, so I went to the control panel/mouse and found that I had set the mouse option to ‘Automatically move pointer to the default button in the dialogue box’ (under ‘Snap to’). (Though I had NOT checked the ‘Snap To’ box. I unchecked the option to automatically move the pointer and perhaps this solves my issue. What has been happening recently is my pointer inexplicably drops to the extreme lower right corner and acts as though I have tried to clear my screen.
Frustrating, erratic, and with me not making any mouse movements at all! In fact, while I have been simply typing this comment it has occurred twice! (AND I have turned off that option and clicked on ‘Apply’!) So maybe a reboot will help my situation. I thought I had solved it – now, (third time) I’m not so sure. Not sure if this is the same problem but I (and many others) are experiencing the appearance of a blinking circular or rectangular area on the screen that takes control of the pointer. In my case it continuously left clicks, opening whatever may be contained in the covered area. Some have solved the issue by unistalling one bloatware program or another, but neither Microsoft or computer manufacturers have come forward with the true reason / solution to this baffling and very suspicious behavior.
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Can you tell me exactly what make and model mouse you are using? I discussed this with the product group and they would be happy to attempt to reproduce this issue if the hardware is available. Mark Radbourne Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview Support This posting is provided 'as is' with no warranties and confers no rights.
I have the same Problem here. I tried three mice - all the same error. Now I read this thread and collected all my USB-Cable mice and that is the result: 2x Logitech B110 M/N: M-U0004, P/N: 810-001317: Both jumping - even on click. 1x Dell M/N: MS111-L, D PPID:CN-09RRC7-48729-353-02NQ (OEM-Product).
Jumping like Logitech - not usable. 1x Targus AMU11EUX S/N.
It Works fine. 1x Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.1 Model 1094. It works fine. Hope that helps.
So changing the mouse is the solution here. But Reinstalling OS - chaning SD-Card - using powered USB-Hub - powering rasperry pi2 with 2.4A. All this did not change anything on this bug. Greetings beneblack.