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wandering mouse
| geek_smithy88 |
June 18, 2009, 3:40 pm |
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#1 | | Wandering mouse Wandering mouse on my Toshiba Laptop running Windows me---Drives me spare. Is there any way of fixing as I,ve tried other mice and they all take off to the sides every now and again and often take 30secs to come back. | |
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| geek_boots0016 |
June 18, 2009, 4:34 pm |
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#2 | | What model Toshiba ? . |
| geek_paper-man |
June 18, 2009, 4:36 pm |
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#3 | | If they are laser, make sure the surface you are using them on isnt uniform (all one colour) as the laser has nothing to track |
| geek_smithy88 |
June 18, 2009, 5:51 pm |
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#4 | | Toshiba Satellite 1800 series There seems to be no way to fix the wandering cursor syndrome---from what I've gathered on google. |
| geek_boots0016 |
June 18, 2009, 6:28 pm |
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#5 | | What sort of mouse Is it a touchpad, ball or laser |
| geek_michibro |
June 18, 2009, 6:35 pm |
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#6 | | that is rubbish the laser just requires a surface with sufficient reflectivity to work such as a piece of white A4 which is what I use. I'm guessing it's the mouse port since all mouses seem to do the same thing, it's obviously not the mouses causing the issue. |
| geek_little_egypt |
June 18, 2009, 6:43 pm |
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#7 | | Laser mice should work on any surface, even black or glass. Regular optical mice work fine on a sheet of paper, they don't need any thing more than a bit of texture. They don't like highly polished or very dark surfaces though. Interestingly, a friend of mine has a plastic table, off-white and close to paper texture which you wouldn't expect to be a problem, but NO optical mice work on it. Not ever. |
| geek_smithy88 |
June 18, 2009, 7:13 pm |
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#8 | | Its a laser--but I've tried a ball and also another laser and same thing so its not the mouse at fault. |
| geek_boots0016 |
June 18, 2009, 7:18 pm |
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#9 | | Running Windows ME, quite an old machine ! Maybe up date mouse drivers |
| geek_smithy88 |
June 18, 2009, 7:37 pm |
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#10 | | Same age as me--- but yes quite old I guess--how do I update Drivers as I have been to the Toshiba wesite. |
| geek_trial_by_fire |
June 19, 2009, 3:24 am |
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#11 | | make sure it's in sync with the alternator. |
| geek_mechnificent |
June 19, 2009, 9:04 am |
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#12 | | Not sure about mice but there is a known "problem" with toshiba keyboard mice in that if you hold the button in one direction for a while it tends to make the cursor move in the other direction for a few seconds after you stop moving the mouse. If you keep on trying to make the cursor stay to the left say, it will always move right when you take your finger off. The more/longer you try and keep it leftthe more it tries to go right when you take your finger off. The cure is to move the curser and then take your finger off the button, if it moves a bit re position it but do not sit there with your finger on the mouse button for too long or the cursor will start drifting in the opposite direction to what you are trying to achieve. |
| geek_pcgeek |
June 19, 2009, 10:33 am |
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#13 | | last wandering mouse I had turned out to be a hair up near the optical lense... |
| geek_smithy88 |
June 19, 2009, 8:03 pm |
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#14 | | Help please whiz kids-- as nothing has worked so far. Mouse or rather cursor just takes off of its own free will. |
| geek_rua69 |
June 19, 2009, 8:12 pm |
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#15 | | does the cursor still wander when you disconnect the mouse and use your touchpad (I'm assuming your laptop uses a touchpad)? |
| geek_smithy88 |
June 20, 2009, 9:50 am |
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#16 | | Just using the toggle goes really wild. how can you disconnect the toggle if you never use it? |
| geek_rua69 |
June 20, 2009, 10:20 am |
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#17 | | sorry, I can't help you. I wondered if the problem was similar to one Mrs Rua had with her USB mouse on her Asus, where the cursor wandered. Shortly afterward it stopped working altogether and then the whole laptop died. It turned out the motherboard had been damaged from a short fall onto its side. Your problem sounds unrelated. Keep Googling - you might find a solution. |
| geek_kylea_damien |
June 20, 2009, 10:50 am |
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#18 | | Go into properties and disable pointer precision, had this on most pc's that i use my gaming mouse. fixes it for me |
| geek_smithy88 |
June 22, 2009, 4:18 pm |
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#19 | | Still wanders--goddam mouse it has a mind of its own so it could be a new PC I guess---thought a computer whizz out there may have had a solution. | |
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