Vista - Cursing jumping all over the place in Vista

I just upgraded Windows XP Media Center edition to Windows Vista Home
Premium. The upgrade went fine on my second attempt AFTER I uninstalled
McAfee Security Center and McAfee Virus scanner. However, I noticed that my
cursor has a tendency to jump all over the place. I went to the Synaptics
website and downloaded the most recent driver that's supposed to work with
Vista, but I'm still having the problem. Any idea how to solve this
problem? Thanks.

"Brad Feldstein" <netter@infionline.net> wrote in message
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>I just upgraded Windows XP Media Center edition to Windows Vista Home
>Premium. The upgrade went fine on my second attempt AFTER I uninstalled
>McAfee Security Center and McAfee Virus scanner. However, I noticed that
>my cursor has a tendency to jump all over the place. I went to the
>Synaptics website and downloaded the most recent driver that's supposed to
>work with Vista, but I'm still having the problem. Any idea how to solve
>this problem? Thanks.

When your mouse cursor is jumping around... check your CPU usage in Task
Manager. If it's HIGH than look at "Processes" in Task Manager and see what
is using the excess CPU.
Sometimes in XP on various machines I would see very high CPU numbers on the
performance tab but nothing unusual on the Processes tab. So my suggestion
may or may not help you.
But re-booting usually helps. Then pay attention to what programs you've
used prior to the mouse skipping around you display.

OK I know this is stupidly obvious but is it a cordless mouse and if so are
the batteries fresh?

"Brad Feldstein" wrote:

> I just upgraded Windows XP Media Center edition to Windows Vista Home
> Premium. The upgrade went fine on my second attempt AFTER I uninstalled
> McAfee Security Center and McAfee Virus scanner. However, I noticed that my
> cursor has a tendency to jump all over the place. I went to the Synaptics
> website and downloaded the most recent driver that's supposed to work with
> Vista, but I'm still having the problem. Any idea how to solve this
> problem? Thanks.
>

"Brad Feldstein" <netter@infionline.net> wrote in message
news:7FC59678-C10E-4B59-ADE0-7D4E8D23C9B4@microsoft.com...
>I just upgraded Windows XP Media Center edition to Windows Vista Home
>Premium. The upgrade went fine on my second attempt AFTER I uninstalled
>McAfee Security Center and McAfee Virus scanner. However, I noticed that
>my cursor has a tendency to jump all over the place. I went to the
>Synaptics website and downloaded the most recent driver that's supposed to
>work with Vista, but I'm still having the problem. Any idea how to solve
>this problem? Thanks.


I found my touchpad to be extremely sensitive in Vista. I had to turn it
off. While typing just brushing it with my palm would cause the cursor to
jump to a different area of the screen. I never really used it much
preferring to use a wireless mouse instead so turning it off wasn't an
imposition. Hopefully Synaptics will come with a newer driver soon.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

I am having the same skipping, jumping bezerk touchpad issues. I noticed it after installing vista updates around the 9th of february. I also tried the synaptics driver- didnt fix problem. Reinstalled default microsoft driver.

The bezerk touchpad is irregular (comes and goes), and after a few moments returns to normal sensitivity. I thought my touchpad was going bad.

This problem doesn't seem to occur with usb optical mouse, and may be a result of a conflict with the ps/2 compatible mouse driver.

gonna go into safe mode and see if it still occurs. I suspect it is a glitch. Any others having this issue?

It's because part of your hand is touching the touchpad.

Most laptops have a way of toggling off the touchpad. Usually the function
[FN] key plus another key [usually some icon indicating a touchpad]. When
you got to type, turn off the touchpad. This precludes the mouse pointer
moving from inadverent touching of the touchpad by the meat of the thumb or
some other part of the hand.

Saucy


"rive0108" <rive0108.354003@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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I'm having the same problem.. I'm not on a laptop, but a desktop (on
Ultimate), and my mouse is an optical mouse..

hmmmm...

I only touch the touchpad with one finger. part of my hand is not brushing the pad, and my problem has nothing to do with typing.
Thanks anyways Saucy, but the cursor goes bezerk with the pad not even being touched during its little jig. If it were something as simple as a brushing of the pad I think I would have resolved the issue by now. I suspect its a sensitivity issue and/or conflict- Motherboard out of sync with the mouse and starts misinterpreting all the data. i.e., It receives a "y b x" from the mouse and treats the y byte as the x-delta, the b byte as the y-delta, and the x byte as the button state. Result: A mouse that goes crazy

"maya" <maya778899@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fpit14$8uv$1@xxxxxxTry blowing on the sensor at the bottom. This happens when there is a
little fluff or fibres there.

ss.

"Saucy" <saucylemon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OxTEWwDdIHA.5984@xxxxxxI'm sure the people that have started complaining of the same thing recently
are not that stupid to not have thought about that. There has been some
Windows Update in the last couple of weeks that is causing this I expect.

ss.