Mouse Pointer Drifting!..HELP

[harsaphes]

My mouse pointer suddenly started drifting across the screen when using IE. Pages are scrolling funny also....any help....its driving me crazy!

 

[kirbyrj]

Optical mouse? Mouse pad?

 

[Bleedblue12345]

bad mouse maybe?

 

[F1xxer]

That used to happen to me with my computer at my last job. It was a ball mouse, and it was bad. It was kind of funny because the mouse would sometimes just magically move to the edge of the screen. Everything worked fine as soon as I moved the mouse again, but it was weird.

 

[harsaphes]

fixed it.

 

[meatycheesyboy]

How did you fix it? I have a similar problam at work where even if I'm not touching my mouse (cheap dell optical, both with and without a mousepad) it'll move, sometimes just a few inches sometimes very quickly to the edge of the screen.