My cursor is on the brink of insanity

[BigZam]

Why does my mouse cursor suddenly randomly go insane?

[Ichigo_89]

Why does my mouse cursor suddenly randomly go insane?

Do you have a drawing artpad for your computer? Maybe you left the pen or extra mouse thingy on it and that's why it spaz's out. (Happened to me anyways...)

[agasfas]

Do you have an Optic mouse? That tends to happen to some GM and other cheap optic mouses.
But if it is a wheel mouse, perhaps it's dirty. You can always open it up and clean the rods.
Also, I've heard sometimes if you don't load the drivers that can happen; even if the Windows OS recognizes the device.
Or perhaps you need to configure it....

[BigZam]

[quote="agasfas"]Do you have an Optic mouse? That tends to happen to some GM and other cheap optic mouses.
But if it is a wheel mouse, perhaps it's dirty. You can always open it up and clean the rods.
Also, I've heard sometimes if you don't load the drivers that can happen]

Yes its optical...

[agasfas]

Check out: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000253.htm
It actually answers the question and tells you on how to fix it (for both kind of mice) . I hope this helps.

[TheMelodyMaker]

I use an optical mouse, and on occasion I find it acting funny which is usually fixed with a pair of tweezers used for pulling little bits of fuzz/hair/etc. out of the optical part on the bottom.

(Off topic: *takes deep breath* Now that's a run-on sentence if I've ever seen one! )

[agasfas]

Like MelodyMaker has stated; hair, fuzy etc cause about 90% of optic mouse problems relating to jump around. The site I posted posted (http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000253.htm) stated that along w/ two other common causes.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

hahah? fuzz can actually do that? evil fuzz! i better start cleaning MY optical mouses