Mouse problems in winxp

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Konstantinnovation

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Ok for some reason hours after a reboot, the mouse cursor stops working. The mouse still works, and i can click things and drag and such, but the visual representation of where the mouse is located no longer moves. It is exceptionally difficult to click on things when you dont know where the mouse is currently located.

If add "pointer trails" , the new location can be seen (even when not moving), but the old location of where the mouse stopped moving remains and disrupts the image. If I run a full screen game, the mouse no longer works even when pointer trails is enabled.

I never had this problem before, and I have tried a few google searches but can't seem to find any similar problems.

Any suggsetions? The hardware is rock solid, and I didn't install anything odd that would create questionable performance like this. Is it a video issue?



PCP&C 510W
P4 3.0,
1GB ECC,
Supermicro P4SCI,
3Ware 8500, 8x250GB SATA RAID5,
80GB RAID1,
Sblive!
 
wow that is really wierd.

The only thing I can think of is to try to update the mouse drivers
 
It started happening a few days ago, and I cannot think of anything out of the ordinary that I had done except catch up on non-critical updates.

I just added .net and the update for it, as well as ALL of the miscelaneous fixes. I only had critical updates installed since... well the rest werent critical.
 
Blah. I think the problem is spyware/trojan related, none of this spyware cleaning software is worth paying for if none of it can actually get rid of this craptastic infected mess.

I don't even use internet explorer. I ONLY use fireifox, and I still got some nasty stuff on my workstation AND server. The server I do NOT want to reinstall but i suppose i will have to redo both, and make nice clean ghost images for next time
 
sickpuppy said:
Blah. I think the problem is spyware/trojan related, none of this spyware cleaning software is worth paying for if none of it can actually get rid of this craptastic infected mess.

I don't even use internet explorer. I ONLY use fireifox, and I still got some nasty stuff on my workstation AND server. The server I do NOT want to reinstall but i suppose i will have to redo both, and make nice clean ghost images for next time
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Why would you pay for spyware cleaning software. The best ones are free. Ad-Aware, Spybot, MS Antispy? Also AVG for antivirus.
Install these three on your next reinstall and you'll be golden. Use the windows firewall too.
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