My mouse is jumping around too.

I have the same problems everyone posted.I tried everything that is suggested by all guru's except few.I have xp pro.pentium4 first model,sd ram,etc etc.I chaged two mouse and the present one is working but not satisfactory.It's also a old mouse from my old computer ,tandy make ps2 mouse.It's unwantedly highlight stuff,start moveng files ,work slow and the buttons are not good.But I have no other choice at the moment.I also use mousekeys but they are too slow compare to mouse.I now use both.mousekeys and mouse.I just use mouse to click,save and .Mouse keys to move the curser.So it don't highlight unwantedly.Only good thing about this tandy old mouse is it don't jump like any other I tried.It don't open start,task manager,device manager etc etc.or open turn off computer options. Mouse is very essential on my type of computer as I can't do much work with mousekeys.Now I can't play games with this Tandy make mouse as it's very sluggish. I am not sure how long I will have to put up with this situation.I won't dare to change the bios .Should I try highjack this to find out any problem ? I will post the log file for your expertize comments and suggestion what to delete.Please advise

i need to add further to my post that when i try some old mouse that worked before on the same computer,my OS just don't recognize them.i mean in the device manager ,the mouse is not even recognized.But when i connect the Tandy make it works with the above problems mentioned .So what is it?

Problem with mouse jumping

I did read messages posted, and I turned the mouse pad upside down, great, now is working, I need to buy another mouse pad, thanks

Perhaps there is bad wiring in the mouse. Buy a new one. Go to a Best Buy, MicroCenter, Circuit City, or any electronic store nationwide and look for any computer mouse.

I highly recommend buying a longer lasting mouse. If you have a laptop, buy a mouse, disable the TouchPad by pressing the button until you see an orange LED indicator

Key:
blue=enabled (temporarily)
orange=disabled (temporarily)

Have u tried occupying him with an exercise wheel and or some cheese??

I've been having similar mouse problems to those described here, along with periodic severe slow downs of the computer. It seems to get worse as the day goes on. I can't find any virus.

I noticed a couple of people mentioned maybe not having enough memory, but here is another possibility. Even if you have enough, one of the memory cards may have gone bad and may be screwing things up.

A good friend of mine in the computer industry had a variety of crazy problems happening not too long after adding some more RAM to his system. At first he didn't make the connection, but later he thought about the RAM. He took it back out and all the problems instantly cleared up. He took the card back where he bought it, swapped it for a new one, put it in and no more problems at all.

I've not made any changes with my RAM in a long time, but maybe one of my cards has gone bad. I've been trying some of the more obvious things, but tomorrow I'll start taking out some of the RAM one card at a time. I'll let you know the results if this works.