Do I need a new mouse?

[xwb]

I've seen this happen on battery operated mice but never on a desktop with a wired laser mouse. There are no vibrations.

The mouse cursor just drifts to the top left corner of the screen. On battery operated mice, it was because the battery was dying. This is a wired mouse on a mouse pad so what could be causing it to drift?

 

[Glenn9999]

Is the laser assembly clean? Usually things like this happen when there is hair or other opaque material on the "lens".

I'm waiting for the white paper entitled "Finding Employment in the Era of Occupational Irrelevancy

 

[linney]

It sometimes might be the actual Mouse Pad is the wrong sort of reflective material, or the Mouse is positioned just slightly off the Mat?

It doesn't hurt to have a spare Mouse in any case for such circumstances.

 

[xwb]

I'll try a different mat (the one that I know works - a piece of A4 paper).

 

[ThichTraXanh]

try unplug the mouse then plug it back, if it doesn't help then plug a working mouse in.

 

[xwb]

It was basically the wood on the desk - the mouse doesn't like it. Piece of A4 worked fine.