Mouse Jumping?
 

Greetings Everybody,
Sometimes if I am surfing the Net, saving a picture, opening an application, etc. my mouse (MS IntelliMouse 3.0) will jump to the side, ahead, etc. What causes this? What can I do to fix it? Thanks

P.S. This is my second (the mouse is probably a two months old) MS mouse but my old did the same thing.

Are the mice's balls dirty?
The internal rollers may need cleaning as well as the mouse's ball.

Are you using the USB port?

The IntelliMouse is an optical mouse and yes I am using a USB port.

Thats the problem. Your mice have no balls.

Mahler, suprisingly MS has a pretty good hardware support system. Go to their webpage, fill out a request form stating what your problem is, and they *should* give you a number to call. They basically will send you a new mouse as long as you can fax them an image of the bottom part of the mouse.

That'd be my first suggestion considering how bad i've had it with MS mice. The other suggestion would be to check your mice's power management tab (via device manager). Make sure "Allow this computer to turn this device off to save power" is unchecked. It's doubtfull that's your problem, but worth a try.

While your at it, get both (broken ones) sent in with the same problem, and give the extra to a friend.

I'm pretty sure my brother's Intellimouse does the same thing when it's about to run out of battery juice. How's the batteries in yours?

-Lasereth

I have an older intellimouse optical and it's always done that except in 2003 I hardly ever see it. I definitely think it isnt' a hardware problem, as it did it REALLY bad in ME and fairly often in 2000. It mainly did it in games to me, giving a vertigo spiraling effect which was lethal sometimes. All I get now in 2003 is my middle mouse button going crazy and scrolling all over the place, stopping when I click it, but no more vertigo spins.

make sure you dont have cat hair on your mouse pad, that can do it, my moseu jumps some times, well acualy to be more specific it losses its x component, further are you sure that you dont have 'snap tp default' checked, it is in the mouse properties in control pannel, it helps old people who cant get the mouse exactly on the botton by moving it there for them, for us young ones its anoying as hell.

I don't have a wireless mouse. It is just the old fashioned wired kind. I cleaned the mouse pad first thinking there was a crumb or something but to no avail. I did check to see about Dilberts suggestion but the Snap To option was unticked. Do people who use Logitech mice suffer from this problem? Thanks

how tight is the knitting on your mouse pad, if its to lose it can cuase the jumpies

There is nothing wrong with my mouse pad or at least that I could feel. Just in case, I tried it on a roommates pad and the jumping still occurs. Thanks for the suggestions and help.

i have a 5-button optical MS IntelliMouse and every once in a while the cursor will jump an inch or so. I've wondered why it does this - but not enough to really look into it. If you find out anything about this, please post it here:)

I've never had this problem with any logitech mouse, or with my cheapy MS optical mouse, and both of those things took a beating. I dont even use a mousepad.

I don't use a mouse pad either.

I've learned that sometimes if you have a colorful mousepad (magazine or wood-grained table type) the mouse will jump pad. Either use a solid color mousepad or I use one of those legal pads (the paper lawyer type) and it works wonders.

Chinga, I agree.
mahler, what does your pad look like?
I've heard that the different colors cause the reflection of the led to screw up the sensors. Try out using a solid color mouse pad and see how it goes.

*stifles laughter*
god im such a nerd!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

but um, maybe you have parkinsons.

I've heard that using the mouse on a pad or piece of paper with a grid printed on it works well too, though I'm not sure how much merit there is in this.