Mouse drifts all over screen

Try to use a decent mouse pad. Optical mice are often confused by certain surfaces.

Hi,

may be its your own Problem, because when you will be writing email or docs you didnt have noticed that some how your hand would be touching to your mousepad. i think its the problem only if its not than yor mouse should have any problem if you are using any external USb mouse.

Thanks

Go to Control Panel - Mouse - Pointer Options - and uncheck 'Enhance pointer precision'.

just get any mouse that has the scroll on the mouse pls.

Chances are that the mouse is just drifting a bit. like, it's sitting still on the desk and the pointer starts moving on it's own on the screen. It's caused by dust getting on the optical receiver and drifting around on it. By no means is it a ghost though.

I finally just was able to solve this problem! I saw somewhere that someone had made sure their primary mouse was selected under hardware, which got me thinking. I thought I had seen a second mouse option somewhere. So, I went into my Control Panel > System > Device Manager and click the arrow next to Mice and other pointing devices. Sure enough, there were two listed. A seemingly generic one and my Logitech I've been using. I right clicked on the generic one and chose disable and the drifting IMMEDIATELY stopped. I went so far as to re-enable that generic to see if it was a fluke because it had stopped drifting on its own yesterday, nope as soon as I enabled the generic device, drifting started again. So Happy!!!

don't us the optic mouse with the roller mouse pad. what is happening here, is the optic trying locate a point. since the pad is not flat and smooth. the optic is doing search (meaning it is constantly looking for a landing point). since it can't fine one, it will draft.

hope that will help

optical mouse (laser) will note work on shining surface (glass)...

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I had a Playstation 2 - USB adapter plugged into another USB port with out the PS2 Controller plugged in.

This caused the mouse drift

go to control panel
mouse
select your double click speed towards slow
clean the sensor below the mouse incase u r having optical mouse