Laptop mouse question

The mouse on my laptop just moves by itself - either down to the toolbar or up to the corner of the screen - It does this every 5 minutes or so and it is really annoying. As a matter of fact, it is happening right now. Does anyone know how to stop it??
Thanks,
Scott

Re: Laptop mouse question

Have you tried rebooting?

Maybe it's like a video game controller and it calibrates when you turn it on, so if you were touching it when you turned it on, it may have screwed up the calibration. I think there must laos be a recalibration tool, like when you firsy bought it, you had to set it up.

Re: Laptop mouse question

If its the little pointer in the middle of the keyboard... that happens to me occasionally. Thats a problem related to the hardware I believe. Pointer could be going bad.

Re: Laptop mouse question

sometimes if you take off the little red thing and put it back on, it works. If you have the touchpad, then I would get it fixed.

Re: Laptop mouse question

Look at the properties. It could be set to be too sensitive.

Re: Laptop mouse question

Its not my laptop - I borrowed it from work to use since I am working from home this week - I will deal with it for the last two days I am working from home. I am getting a new dell laptop for work next month - cannot wait