Preserved Topic: wierd mouse

Does your mouse ever move all by itself? Mine does sometimes and I don't know why. It happens in windows or in a game. I have a wacom tablet but it still happens even if i unplug it. I don't have a laptop so I don't have any touchpads. But I don't think it is the wacom because I don't think it works in games, so it can't move the mouse unless its a windows cursor. (Don't remember but I thought the tablet didn't work if the cursor is a directx one, they are handled different)

evilclown01

Mine gets the jitters once in a while. Used to be major bad. I'ld be jumping up and down, yelling and screaming. Then I updated the drivers and now things are *much* better. Still jitters a teeny bit once in a while, but I think it's because my mouse is optical and the surface that I run it on.

Buy a new one. They're only about $20.

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

My digital mouse does.

Digital mice are a waste of money. At this point.

yah...i get that a lot too...
http://www.s-i-n.com/pranks/drunkmouse.zip

I've heard optical ones move around somethimes, but mine is a ps/2. I'm broke so maybe reinstalling it will work. I usually have bad luck with windows driver updates. They always manage to cause more problems then you had to begin with.

This is kinda off topic, but anyone know how much painter would cost? Maybe even a older version. I have painter classic, but I heard painter is a lot better.

evilclown01

Even is your mouse interfaces through your PS2 mouse port it could still be an optical mouse.

Does it have a ball underneath it?

If so, then it isn't optical. In any event you could try dismantling it and cleaning the rollers, recptors and the fly weels (I don't know exactly what theise are called) inside. The receprots are the ting little boxes either side of the fly weels... the fly weels look like mini bicycle weels (with spokes).

If your mouse has a little lense instead of a ball under it then it's an optical mouse. Many (all?) also have a red light that lights up the surface just under the lense. People often have problems with optical's when they use them on surfaces that have a repetive pattern or if the surface is reflective. Ever try using your optical mouse on your monitor glass? Doesn't work does it. The best surface I've found for an optical mouse is those old $2 foam like mose pads! Kinda defeats the pourpose of an optical mouse though.

As for driver updates, well.... You can always uninstall the diver if it doesn't help. If all else fails then just buy a new mouse... their cheap. If it keeps happening then maybe you shoulod start installing all of those updates for your PC. Or maybe you have an odd IRQ conflict happening somewhere.

My optical/cordless mouse does weird things sometimes. Usually it's because the batteries are low.

Sasha.

TekFusion, you bastard.

What a time I had trying to click "End Process."

I gotta install this at work... (CBS would not be happy.)

I know what an optical mouse is, and mine isn't. I've had some trouble with my usb mouse on slackware, but the ps2 works right. I cleaned it and it was really dirty, so that was probably it.

evilclown01

yes, it happens all the time...

it even clicks here and there, drags icons and double click and run other programs and if you're unlucky it closes your unsaved work and presses NO

i solve it by pressing CTRL+ALT+WINKEY+SCROLL+NUM+CAPS+SHIFT repeatedly several times.

wow this post creeped me out because when i was reading the first part of it my mouse started to jitter...CREEPY! ::runs and hides::

I had that problem too sort of - my mouse used to like to wander away, it was a microsoft wireless scroll mouse and one day it finally died. I also had a wacom too, so i just started using it instead of the mouse. I am really starting to hate mice altogether - they never seem to work right and they really waste time when you think about it.


...kill the mouse, kill the mouse, kill the mouse......

I had a usb optical... loved that guy... actually he is still sitting on my desk. I will probably burn his remains some day. Heh. It would just stop workin. Then It would start... I could not figure out if it was hard ware of soft... I sarted to use the Wacom for all mouse activities... Wacom mouse sucks like no other, and i got tired of using the pen all the time... not comfy err no scroll wheel. now i got a wireless optical wid extra buttons. As long as I have extra batteries I can rum my computer from my bed. I love it.

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something else is wrong, I unistalled a lot of programs, disabled everything except systray and explorer in msconfig, reinstalled my mouse driver and unplugged my tablet. The mouse problem is even worse now. It will just stop moving sometimes. (It's not just the mouse, to test it I played music, and when the mouse stops moving the music stops) It will even move and click all by itself. And my computer is having a lot of crashes in the last couple of days. Any idea how I could fix this? Hopefully the only answer isn't reformatting.

evilclown01

Try using the mouse on a different computer man. If there is a mouse problem on a diff computer trash the mouse.