cursor jumping off screen

What could be causing my cursor to jump to different places on the screen, or over to the 2nd monitor when I am trying to move it. I have Win XP sp2 installed on a MPC Client Pro 585?

 

Hi, nitewalker.

My first guess is you're using an optical mouse and there is "stuff" (like hair and other such things) near the mouse's optical sensor that are interfering with accurately recording your mouse movements. If so, use some tweezers to carefully pluck the "stuff" out of the mouse's optical sensor area.

If you're using an old-fashioned ball mouse, then you might cure the problem by removing the ball from the mouse and cleaning the rollers that the ball controls.

Please let us know if this suggestion works for you or not.

 

My cure to this was a change of mouse pad if your pad is of a light colour it can do this to your Optical Mouse, you can try by just putting a non reflective cover coloured paper or the like over your pad.
hope it works
hawk22

 

thanks to everyone who replied, did change mouse pad and also cleaned any lint off of optical mouse eye, works good now, thanks for all your assistance

 

Hi, nitewalker.

Thanks for reporting back to let us know it worked.


EDIT:
BTW, your title for this thread is very descriptive. I thought of the hair before opening the message. I have a pet and hair gets in my mouse's eyes often.

Something that's intrigued me: Why doesn't that mouse have its eyes in the normal place? Seems if motion can be detected at close range, then motion can be detected when the mouse's eyes (or eye in the case of a Cyclops mouse) are/is looking straight ahead. If two "eyes" are used, one eye could radiate the infrared/laser light beam while the other eye receives the reflected light. The receiving eye could be adjustable to focus the center of its range at the normal distance to the wall, monitor base, specially made reflector, whatever. Perhaps the power consumption would be greater in the case of a longer-range transmitter and/or sensor.

Anyway, I claim copyright to these ideas if my EDIT post time-stamp withstands time-stamp tests against other posts with the same ideas. Would be a great, functional novelty item. If I win the copyright award, I'll send Windows BBS a check because they provided me the medium for my expression of this (hopefully) original idea and deserve to reap some benefits.

 

Mouse jumps

where I work we have over 700 MPC Computers and all the mice that came with them do the same thing. MPC said it was the same problem, but we could never get them to stop the jumping. is your mouse a gray microsoft mouse with the MPC logo on them.

 

I had the very light coloured new Dell Mouse Pad and at first just stuck red copy paper over it and it stopped it I then changed the Pad.
Just to try it I changed back to the Dell pad and the jumping was back, so I know in my case it is the Mouse Pad, I don't know why Dell would supply them.
hawk22

 

Thanks for everyone's reply, think that it is as was mentioned a MPC problem, as it is happening on both MPC's and that is after I cleaned the mice and ensured the optic's were clean, and changed mouse pads.