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I have just installed XP SP2, and now for some reason my
mouse pointer moves on its own to the left hand side of
my screed, any ideas anyone??

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Originally posted by Paul Adams 
I have just installed XP SP2, and now for some reason my
mouse pointer moves on its own to the left hand side of
my screed, any ideas anyone?? 


Yes, I have the exact same problem. I cannot find anything on Microsoft web 
site regarding this problem. What to do? This is really annoying!!

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>-----Original Message-----
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>Paul Adams wrote: 
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>Yes, I have the exact same problem. I cannot find anything
on Microsoft
>web site regarding this problem. What to do? This is
really annoying!!
>
>I am glad that I am not the only one who has this problem.
However. I have had this problem, on and off, since I got
my wireless optical mouse.  I hope some one can help us.
>
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Try turning off 'pointer precision' in the control pannel.

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Originally posted by Paul Adams 
I have just installed XP SP2, and now for some reason my
mouse pointer moves on its own to the left hand side of
my screed, any ideas anyone?? 
 

Right after installing SP2, I too had the same problem... I did a system res
tore to just prior to installing SP2... Lo and behold, my mouse pointer is b
ack to normal..  I think I'll wait till this is resolved before I try re-ins
talling SP2

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quote:
Originally posted by Paul Adams 
I have just installed XP SP2, and now for some reason my
mouse pointer moves on its own to the left hand side of
my screed, any ideas anyone?? 
 

I had the same problem.  I installed another driver for my mouse.  Within th
e new driver, I disabled the stick pointer on my laptop and enabled only the
 touchpad.  This solved the problem.

Hope this works for you.....

Gig

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[B]I had the same moving cursor symptom after installing SP2. I corrected or maske
d it by going to Control Panel - Mouse - Pointer Options - and uncheck 'Enhance
 pointer precision'[B]

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quote:
Originally posted by Paul Adams 
I have just installed XP SP2, and now for some reason my
mouse pointer moves on its own to the left hand side of
my screed, any ideas anyone?? 
 

After reading Philosopher Bat's posting, I thought I'd give SP2 another try.
  Prior to installing SP2, I had installed the mouse driver specific to my h
ardware (AOpen Mouse Driver R1.32).  After the SP2 install, the drifing mous
e cursor problem appeared as expected. When I went to control panel to unche
ck the option that Bat mentioned, it's not an option for that mouse driver. 
 So I un-installed the mouse and it's driver, installed the generic driver, 
unchecked the option, and that seems to have solved or masked the drifting c
ursor problem.  Thanks to Philosopher Bat for his posting.

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