Mouse has a mind of its own.

Every once in awhile,but not all the time my mouse arrow will move by itself. Up or down,sometimes left to right,just for a split second,the sucker will take off. Anyone have any ideals,,,,,,I'm running Windows ME,HP XL775,512 ram,,,all my drivers are updated,my system is running grrrrrrrrrrrrrr8,,,,, ( knock on wood ).

 

wish i could help...i've had this happen to me and never was able to fix it. if someone provieds a solution, i would also like to know it.

 

time for a new mouse, it's dying i just had this problem, got a logitech desktop set and it works fine - you can get them cheap off ebay or newegg

 

Is it optical mouse? If yes then I suggest get a good dark, material mousepad.

 

Your most likely using a wireless set. They are basically unreliable...

never buy cordless...

 

my cordless is so much better than my old microsoft keyboard

 

This actually happens to me as well.
I have a run-of-the-mill mouse. Been meaning to buy an optical one for a while, I'm just too lazy to go out to the store.

 

I've seen this happen to bran new Dell mouses out of the box, to me it is cheap hardware.

 

It's a Microsoft IntelliPoint 4.0 Wheel Mouse,hard wire,,,,,Not wireless....

 

mine also does this
i had an old mouse and it did this and now i got a new logitech mouse and it still does it not as much but it does

Hu Ha!

 

Most IntelliPoint's start acting crazy when they are about to go out. If you've already updated your drivers (no avail), uninstalled and re-installed your drivers (no avail), tried a mousepad specifically for Intellipoint optical mouse (no avail), then just replace it.

Have you tried the mouse on another desktop machine to see if it's a desktop hardware/software issue, or the hardware mouse itself?