Drifting Mouse on Dell Inspiron 8000

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I have a dell Lattitude C600 that does the same, and I think it's
the pointing stick. I never use it so I disabled it and the problem
seems to have gone.

HTH.

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Vu.



"Bert FS" <bert_fs01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> My personal (temporarily) solution to the drifting mouse: just lift
> (several times) the left-frontside of the Dell Inspiron 8000 and
> alternate with lifting the right-frontside; which is perfect possible
> due to the absence of suffucient rigidness in the construction of the
> Dell machine.
>
> The same absence of suffucient rigidness is possibly the reason of the
> problem: it causes to my opninion after some time a fysical
> malfunction of the keyboard/touchpad(-connections?).
> Because: after replacing my keyboard the problem has vanished sofar.
>
> Bert FS.