When my cursor moves mysteriously by itself across the screen

[soleft]

Does that mean the IT people at work are checking out my screen, or could it be something with the mouse.

[Sequoia]

1. I'd say Big Bro.

[arwalden]

2. Bad Ch'i. You Need To Feng Shui Your Work Space.

:rofl:

[soleft]

5. any suggestions

I'm going on vacation next week so I need to clean it up anyway.

There are also a zillion personal files I should probably delete.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. It's not a Feng Shui problem, dolt. I did a tarot reading, and it's

an Ionized Magnetronic problem. The poster simply needs to place a pyramid made from amethyst on the left side of the mouse, and a crystal of permanthenite on the monitor, and then do a cleansing ritual of burning one stick of patchouli and one stick of frankincense and two sage leaves and three basil leaves while chanting "om ramma dom, om ramma rom, ramma dom ramma, ramma om ramma om" over and over and sprinkling the work space with deionized sodium crystals.

Sheesh.

Feng Shui.

I can tell that you know nothing about science.

[arwalden]

11. I See You Forgot The Hexagonal Water...

... that shows just how much YOU know, eh?

[hickman1937]

12. Those deionozed sodium crystals will clean your carpets too,

so don't forget to save them when you're done.
stupidity edit

[notadmblnd]

3. if you are at work.. it could be

if you have a scroll mouse.. it could also be ththat you have it set to scroll. try clicking the button in the middle

[soleft]

7. I clicked on the botton in the middle

A circle with an up and down arrow appeared with a dot in the middle - what does that mean?

[notadmblnd]

13. it means your set to self scroll. unclick it.

nt

[MadHound]

4. Ghosts in the Machine!

Perhaps your computer needs a good exorcist:shrug:

[ladjf]

6. Most likely someone else is remotely logged in to your PC.

However, an errant mouse could cause that. Notice where the cursor moves to. If someone is logged on, the cursor would move purposefully
to certain areas of the screen. A mouse generated problem would have more of an meandering motion.

[soleft]

8. It's happened a couple of times

The cursor usually moves an inch or two in a straight line and when I notice and movie the cursor myself it stops.

[ladjf]

17. Corporate monitoring is generally more sophisticated than what

you described. The would be watching your screen with no cursor action on their part. Mostly, they have software that records ALL of your keystrokes, downloads, emails in and out. If you work for a business and are doing things with your PC that are forbidden, you are likely to get fired.

[hyphenate]

9. It depends

if it's a wireless, cordless mouse, the battery could be low. That's how I know my own is dying out when it starts moving everywhere.

[Kathleen04]

14. Ouija effect

Ask it a question and watch which letters it points to. :)

[caty]

15. It means you're in the twilight zone.

:scared:

[Thew]

16. Had this happen to a co-worker...

using a laptop and docking station.

It turned out when she had last closed the laptop, she had caught a piece of paper or something on the touchpad, pressing it hard enough to occasionally move the cursor.

[progmom]

18. let's start asking it questions, since it's obviously a Ouiji cursor

Oh Ouiji cursor - who will be the next supreme court justice?