Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mouse Misbehavin"

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

None of you guys addressed Larry's core problem.  Jumping mouse.

I have had this happen, but it was several years ago, and, well,
those beers that Ferrari Bubba bought me in Tucson erased the
exact cause.  It's really annoying.  You are trying to positon the
mouse *right here*, and suddenly it's on the opposite corner of
the screen.  And then it can kind of bounce around at random.

But it seems to me that it had something to do with some crappy
piece of software that I had installed.  Some sort of shareware
or badly designed "professional-ware".  Look at printer drivers,
network drivers, etc.  The mere fact that you have multiple
computers doing the same thing points to something common
like a printer driver that you are installing on all machines.

I used to be the caretaker of a small company network of some
30 odd computers running everything from Win3.1 to OS2 to XP
to 2000 to Linux.  Weird times, glad I'm no longer there.

Hans.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:26 PM, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi gang-
> A while back a list member questioned why his mouse would jump to different
> parts of the page he was on for no apparent reason.  He was advised to check
> and load any new drivers.
>
> Didn't mention it at the time but I had the same problem with the glide pads
> on my laptops and traditional mouse on my desktop.  Now, another laptop was
> bought Sunday and its glide pad does the same thing!
>
> Yes, I checked to be sure I have the latest drivers and that didn;t seem to
> matter.  Strangest of all was a new laptop doing the same thing!
>
> BTW, my new laptop has Vista which I am having trouble liking.  I am
> considering reinstalling Vista to see if that fixes any of the problems I am
> having or I may install XP and go back to the devil I know.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thx!
> LarryT
>