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Vista and the Jumping Cursor

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

I bought a portable USB Logitech laser mouse for my Vista encrusted laptop. Great for on-the-go people like myself. Lately, I’ve run into a problem: the cursor, for no apparent reason, would jump to a corner of the screen. All were fair game. After spending too much time perusing the Internet for a solution, none of which worked (clean the mouse, turn over the mousepad, update the driver, roll back SP1 (didn’t do this), disable the touch pad, etc). Replacing the mouse with another DID work but I wanted to make this one work.

Oddly enough, the problem ended up being the mousepad I was using. The pad is darkish blue with a Hard Rock cafe logo on it. I took it away and used the desktop which works fine. The other laser mouse I had worked fine on it…but not the Logitech. I read the laser mice are sensitive; I believe!

Doug