problem with windows xp home

[PHIL_B54]

does anyone have xp home and the mouse just automatically jump to the start button ALL of the time. some times it jumps to the close button, but mostly to the start button. i think it might be a setting or just my crappy mouse. but it makes me extremely angry. its a logitech infa-red mouse. any help would be appreciated.

my windows 95 doesnt do that :D

[310Rduner]

Originally posted by Crazy400exMan
my windows 95 doesnt do that :D

Good for you.

I have never seen that happen on a windows xp comp, at school I've been on prolly 30 or more of our comps, and none have ever done that. I have never even heard of that happening. I'd check around the options menu's, but we dont have the Home edition, only Pro.

[PHIL_B54]

ya, ive got pro at work and love it, i really hate this home edition. its my roommates, otherwise it would soooo be gone

[JTRtrx250r]

Ive had pro for about a yr and a 1/2...but haven't had that problem,maybe its just the home version,although I did have a mouse prob once...turned out it wasnt completely plugged it,try updating the driver maybe

[sickmojave]

it's really an easy fix. go to control panel, double click on mouse, click pointer options. uncheck the "snap to" option. hope this helps

[hondafox440]

Sounds like a crappy mouse to me. I havent had any trouble with Home on my 2 PCs or Pro on my server.

[Woodsrider]

Originally posted by sickmojave
it's really an easy fix. go to control panel, double click on mouse, click pointer options. uncheck the "snap to" option. hope this helps

;) What he said. I have XP home and havent had a single problem with it yet. I would never go back to 95/98.

[Dan_Guetter]

for some reason my mouse jumps to xxx links:eek: :eek:

[Punk'd]

umm virus?

[Dan_Guetter]

no virus, just curious



lol


:blah: :blah:

Originally posted by Shift_DVS
for some reason my mouse jumps to xxx links:eek: :eek:


same thing here, its weird

[Dan_Guetter]

then when i click to close, 10 new sites jump out at me.....that must be a virus?:confused:

[Woodsrider]

Originally posted by Shift_DVS
for some reason my mouse jumps to xxx links:eek: :eek:

Mine used to do that. Then I got hit by the Mrs. So I only do that chit at work now:o J/P

As for the pop ups, you're goin to the wrong sites... try payin for it;)

[NoVaEX]

Sounds like spyware or just normal pop-ups. Try scaning your computer with Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/ - and see what comes up. There is also lots of free pop-up blockers you could install, I just use the one intergrated w/ my firewall.
Be very careful when visiting questionable sites(ie. porn) that use ActiveX as well, malicious code that installs spyware can be embedded into ActiveX controls very easily.

[PHIL_B54]

Originally posted by sickmojave
it's really an easy fix. go to control panel, double click on mouse, click pointer options. uncheck the "snap to" option. hope this helps

i dont have that option, (not stock mouse) i do have the one that says jump to ok boxes and stuff. thats not it though. it does it all the time. i can be playing BF1942 and my guy will just spin around in circles cause it jumped to the corner, or i will go to click on a thread and when i click the start menu will come up cause the pointer jumped to the start button. autocad and inventor are all messed up. id blame it on the mouse but i got the same thing at work. the only difference is pro 2000/xp home.

[pbarr86]

I have a Logitech optical mouse and am running XP home on this computer and haven't had any problems. Have you tried going to the Logitech website and searching for new software or updated drivers for your mouse?

[VIC]

Reinstall your mouse software or has it always done that?

[PHIL_B54]

its always done it , but i think re-installing it is a good idea. i will give it a try tonight. and going to the logitech website is a good one too. thanks

[PHIL_B54]

i hink i fixed it. the mouse was hooked thru the mouse port, so hooked thru the usb port, re-installed it and downloaded the new thing from their website. hasnt did the jumping thing yet, and inventor is fixed. autocad is not, i just need to find the settings in it and i will be set.

thanks for the help guys

[CowsBitePeople]

sometimes my mouse starts spazzing and going all over the screen for like 10 seconds really fast:confused: