Remote Desktop Random Mouse Events

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Since it changes depending on full-screen or windowed, have you tried
reducing the hardware accelaration on your Video? I remember there used to
be an option for that, and one of the reasons to slow it down was if you had
mouse problems.

"Pat Brown" wrote:

> I have just recently started using the Windows XP remote desktop client
> and server to access my main development system (in the next room)
> remotely. While on the remote system, I do a lot of coding and reply to
> work emails.
>
> I normally connect to the remote system with the client in full screen
> mode. I have been seeing a problem where my cursor spontaneously jumps
> about every minute or two. Sometimes, it's a different location in the
> same window; sometimes, it's an all new window. But it's been driving
> me crazy. I've been trying to figure out what's going on, and have
> determined that the behavior is consistent with a mouse click happening
> when the glitches occur (i.e., the cursor jumps to the mouse pointer).
> But I'm not touching the mouse at that time.
>
> Are there any known issues similar to this? I've done some web searches
> and have come up empty.
>
> I have not been able to replicate the problem when running the remote
> desktop client in windowed mode, or if I set the keyboard setting for
> windows key combinations to "on the local computer". (I haven't run in
> either of these modes for extended periods of time yet, so I wouldn't
> conclude that no problem exists there.)
>
> I've never seen anything like the problem I describe when running
> locally on either system.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Pat
>