ps/2 mouse jumping and erratic

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I've looked through the forum and didn't find anything. Most of the problems I have seen are with an optical mouse. Mine isn't. I have run disk clean up, and spy sweeper, and restored, and defraged, and cleand the mouse out too. Nothing is working. My mouse will just take off and go to the scroll down bar on the right of my screen. Sometimes it get stuck there. Sometimes it is just all over the place really fast. But it defanitely likes the scroll bar the best. It does this when I am in windows, and when I am online.  It is very annoying. Any ideas on how to fix it. I haven't installed anything lately in it. I have uninstalled and installed it again and it didn't fix the problem.  I have a dimension 4500, running windows XP, sp2, and the mouse is Microsoft PS/2 (old style with ball) so my mouse pad shouldn't be a problem. I also have no other mouse to try. It seems to come in streaks. Any ideas?   Thanks in advance for any information you can give me. ~Buffie

silver_pioneer · Answer

Mine is doing the same thing.I've tried three diffrent mice two optical and one ball type they all have the same problem.Sometimes it gets so bad that I can't use my computer.

Buffie Jo · Answer

I am so sorry you are having the same problem. My husband was going to go look at a new mouse tomorrow on his way home from work, but I just have a feeling that it isn't going to make a difference.  I put the mouse on a blank piece of computer paper and it is still doing it. Not as bad, but then again it's getting late, and it seems do it more often when the internet is most likely busier. So many people have this problem. You would think someone would know how to fix it. Let's hope someone does, cuz I sure don't.

genie hunter · Answer

I have been having this problem for about a year . . . six months ago I threw away my keyboard and mouse and replaced them; however, did not fix the problem!!   There are some things I have figured out though, and have had a computer tech person here . . . because my clock was slowing down, he suggested it needed a battery, so we replaced that.    Then I noticed that when the clock slowed down the cursor acted up.  What I have figured out is this:  it is more apt to start becoming erratic and in fact almost sticks to the screen as though there was a magnetic holding it there, then will fly loose and flip back and forth as though on a long spring with no idea where it will come to rest . . . anyway, after the computer has been one two to three hours it is going to do it.    Tech suggested it was overheating but when it gets too bad to deal with, I can restart and it is gone for another span of time, he says overheating wouldn't disappear that fast.   AND if I am playing canned music it will also stutter.  Tech person said the battery would affect the clock but not the cursor.but it seems to me that they go hand in hand somehow . . .   After a year and dollars hiring people to come here that can't figure it out, am ready to throw it out a three story window, but am on a ground floor!!!   Hope some computer genius will explain this phenomenon to us.  Was also told that it 'could be' a Windows problem . . . can't someone tell us if that is the case?  I HATE MACHINES!!

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