by Richard Griffin on April 5th, 2006

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My mouse pointer randomly scoots across the desktop without warning. I have WinXp Pro. What could be wrong?

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by benjamin123 on February 3rd, 2007
That can be caused by a number of things.

If your mouse is a ball mouse, it might just be dirty, but usually dirty mice do the opposite and just stick

If your mouse is an optical mouse try switching the surface you work on. If I use my mouse on my wooden kitchen table it'll "scoot" as well, but is fine if i'm on a piece of paper.

Could be a defective mouse where a part is loose/shorting and making it skip.

Could be the batteries are going if it's a wireless.
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by dangerus1 on February 3rd, 2007
Is it a cordless mouse containing batteries, if so these might need replacing,another thing that occurred with my mouse & sender unit was that the sender unit (that plugs into the USB)needed to be roughly 19 inches apart
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by Richard Griffin on February 8th, 2007
Thankkx!
I posed this question originally and I discovered two things. One I changed the brand of mouse and yes it was an optical mouse and two I went to a different motherboard/memory combination. I'm not astute enough to tell if it was the memory but I found that the less expensive mouse on the market is not always the best performance. You get what you pay for.
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by Knopper67 on April 20th, 2006
I had the same problem with my mouse when i first bought windows xp. I brought it back to where i bought it and then got it replaced. They told me that it was defective. When i hooked the new mouse up to my pc i didnt have the problem anymore. Thats all i can tell you.
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- Doesn't answer the question?!?
  
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  by An0nym0us on May 2nd, 2006
- Your mouse is defective... Simple enough?
  
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  by Knopper67 on September 5th, 2006
- There you go again!!! You made another mouse HOMELESS!
  
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  by ShawnPatrick on February 7th, 2007
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by anonymous on February 7th, 2007
maybe b/c its a window, next computer you get it should be a mac. there are no problems like that.
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- Plus you'll get to spend twice as much as you would for a PC, and you'll have only one button on your mouse, and hardware that is manufactured out of chewing gum and matchsticks and fails regularly.
  
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  by DavidHume on February 7th, 2007
- you might spend 2x more but i think its wortht the money, you can also get a two button mouse if want and use that, but it does not fail regularly! i ve had my macbook for about 6 weeks now and havent had a single problem yet. while our windows was already having problems after 4 weeks of having it
  
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  by anonymous on February 7th, 2007
- 6 whole weeks! My Windows system has never had a problem in over a year, and I recently saw two brand new Macs fail, in one case right out of the box. I don't think they are nearly as good as they used to be, and they're way over-priced in my opinion.
  
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  by DavidHume on February 7th, 2007
- i respect you opinion but i disagree with it, i think they are better than windows, and they are at there best that theyve ever been, and that the prices are expensive but they have dropped a little i think. you may have seen 2 brand new macs fail recently but i have seen literally hundreds of new windows fail repeatidly.
  
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  by anonymous on February 8th, 2007
- Literally hundreds? Gosh. That seems... rather strange, but OK.
  
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  by DavidHume on February 8th, 2007
- at least with in the last year....does seem strange, i thought that there would be more lol
  
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  by anonymous on February 8th, 2007
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by ShawnPatrick on February 7th, 2007
It all depends on the mouse you are using... A field mouse has more of a tendency of running than a domestic mouse... Get my point?
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by ShawnPatrick on February 7th, 2007
Have you considered that your mouse is one of the "3 blind mice" and he is trying to run away from y'r carving knife? Wanna hear another tale?
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