Mouse Is Jerky

Suddenly, my mouse does not move smoothly across the screen. I have to wait while the cursor catches up to where I want it to be. After a few seconds, it will start moving smoothly but in that few seconds -- up to ten -- it is REALLY annoying. How do I cure this?

Any ideas?

I have run all of my anti-virus software -- CCleaner, MalwareBytes, SuperAntiSpyware, and Avira -- in that order.

 

Make sure there is not something like a hair in laser cavity. Also, do a "cold" reboot. That is, shut down the computer and flip the master power switch on the back of the power supply (or unplug the computer from the wall) for about 15 seconds. Then power up and see what happens.

If still having problem, try another mouse to isolate the problem to the mouse, or the computer.

 

Jerky movements are usually caused by fluff on the ball roller mechanism. A simple clean usually resolves the problem.

 

Not recently, but when I did I always had to take it apart and clean the crud off the 2 wheels inside.

 

Maybe 1 person.

 

Wireless optical mouse. It seems to do this when a page or program is loading. Once it loads it moves smoothly.

Never had this problem until recently.

Windows 10 is my platform.

 

And did you do everything suggested above?

 

Mine was doing that when I changed my monitor. Wrong aspect ratio/resolution.

 

No ball to clean.
It would be unusual for dirty wheels to only manifest while a page or program is loading and then at no other time.
No recent changes to monitor settings.
Both my PC and my laptop are doing the same thing.
Both have been hard booted.
I believe it has something to do with Windows 10 and one of the settings but I don't know which one.

 

You've probably got dust or a hair in front of the optical sensor. If it's a ball mouse, take it apart and clean the rollers. If it's an optical mouse the surface you are using could also make it jerky if the surface doesn't have enough detail for the optical snesor to pickup, like when you are using a glass desk some optical mice don't work well on glass desks.

 

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