mouse scrolling by itself

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Some types of mice will do this if placed on an inappropriate surface.

If you have an optical mouse, it will work best on a plain white [and not
beige] or blue mat or even paper.

"hatmancan" wrote:

> i have a very strange problem here..my mouse will all of a sudden scroll
> across the screen by itself to the left..then will go up the screen...i have
> deleted the driver,reinstalled the driver for the mouse..i am running
> xpsp2...is there a conflict with this and if so how the heck do i get rid of
> this annoyance
> thanks
> look forward to some help on this