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    DaveAuld
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    Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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      Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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      OriginalGriff
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      I'm fine on both desktop and Surface - both running 20H2 (109042.867) My mouse driver is "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse" to a Logi Trackman Wheel via PS/2 port on desktop, and "Hid compliant mouse" via bluetooth on Surface. Both working with no oddities at all.

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      • D DaveAuld

        Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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        megaadam
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        This maybe not your case but funny: A while back... * my mouse started acting really weird * OK, switch, mouse, fine! * But not : ( switch mouse port, fine! * But not : ( * After a couple of days... * I realised that with my lid closed the touchpad was picking up static * Find setting, fine!

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          Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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          NeverJustHere
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          Is it the software or the mouse? Do you have the same problem with a different mouse? I've seen dying mice that would record phantom clicks.

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            Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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            Sander reported mouse issues too, after Windows 10 update. The Lounge[^]

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              Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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              Nagy Vilmos
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              I'm running triple mouse action BECAUSE I CAN! Sometimes I accidentally lie something on the trackball's buttons and then odd stuff happens, but generally they behave.

              veni bibi saltavi

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                Is it the software or the mouse? Do you have the same problem with a different mouse? I've seen dying mice that would record phantom clicks.

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                DaveAuld
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                I'm pretty sure it is software. I am not aware of anything on the mouse that can change the screen scrolling mode/state I don't have any other hardware to play with (im stuck in hotel quarantine)

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                  Sander reported mouse issues too, after Windows 10 update. The Lounge[^]

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                  Sander Rossel
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                  Yeah, but not that bad! I thought disabling "Enhance pointer precision" fixed it, but I see it's on now and I don't have any problems anymore... Maybe a restart fixed it?

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                  • D DaveAuld

                    Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                    Rage
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                    Happened to me on the laptop when the touchpad was still on although I thought it was turned off, so I would occasionaly touch it with the keyboard hand while moving the mouse with the mouse hand, causing bizarre interactions.

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                    • D DaveAuld

                      Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                      Scott Serl
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                      Depends on your mouse, but sometimes the mouse wheel (for scrolling) is also a button, and if you press down (click) the wheel, it will be in scrolling mode so your mouse scrolls with movement.

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                      • D DaveAuld

                        Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                        Chris Maunder
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                        I'd tell you but my laptop has failed for the last 3 months to do a windows update. Like an idiot I will, however, retry every two weeks.

                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                          Happened to me on the laptop when the touchpad was still on although I thought it was turned off, so I would occasionaly touch it with the keyboard hand while moving the mouse with the mouse hand, causing bizarre interactions.

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                          Gary R Wheeler
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                          I farking hate :mad: those damned things. I've disabled them in the BIOS on my last two laptops. It's PITA to get selection right, drag/drop is just as bad, and scrolling requires dislocating your middle finger. It is my eternal shame that when they first came out in the 90's I thought they were pretty cool.

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                          • D DaveAuld

                            Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                            Check your middle button functionality. This is exactly what mine does. If I press the middle button (which is easy to do if I'm scrolling too vigorously), it changes behaviour into some kind of scroll mode. The icon changes to a cross with arrows on each end, and moving the mouse causes the page to scroll, rather than move the pointer. HTH

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                              Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                              Member 12207222
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                              Coonamble has had all this rain, and there is a terrible mouse plague. Dead and dying mouses everywhere, some with blue teeth.

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                                Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                                inlandchris1
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                                Just updated windows 10 yesterday and the mouse acted like someone else was using it. I unplugged the RJ45 and still had the problem. Looking deeper, the CPU was maxed out at 100% so not much processing power going to the mouse. After waiting a while, it calmed down and started working ok but took a long time, an hour or so. I think the new update was still working on things in the background so you could do things in the foreground, didnt work.

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                                  Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                                  Ralf Peter Lucke
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                                  I had a similar issue some years ago too. Every time I opened a combobox list it scrolled down to the last item. It took me some hours of investigation until I realized that I had a powered-on cordless mouse in my backbag :-)

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                                    I'm pretty sure it is software. I am not aware of anything on the mouse that can change the screen scrolling mode/state I don't have any other hardware to play with (im stuck in hotel quarantine)

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                                    Nelviticus
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                                    DaveAuld wrote:

                                    I am not aware of anything on the mouse that can change the screen scrolling mode/state

                                    Middle-click does this, so it could be a faulty middle mouse button (the scroll wheel on most mice).

                                    Regards Nelviticus

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                                    • D DaveAuld

                                      Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                                      Carlos Perez Chavez
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                                      Is your mouse old? Those same things happen to me when my mouse has too much wear. The sensors start to go crazy, and it starts suddenly.

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                                      • D DaveAuld

                                        Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                                        obermd
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                                        I've seen this before as far back as Windows 2000. You have a device sending spurious interrupts to the system. The usual culprit is a battery powered mouse with weak batteries, but I've seen keyboards and other wireless devices do the same thing.

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                                          Is anyone else's comp / mouse starting to do weird things on the mouse front? I don't know if it was a recent update that has triggered this, but it is starting to drive me nuts. Windows randomly switches into mouse scroll mode, changes the icon on screen as well, and then when I move my mouse, it scrolls the page up and down. I have no idea what triggers it, and pressing ESC or clicking the screen furiously can stop it. I thought it might be the Lenovo AutoScroll Service, but my understanding that this is for moving partially off screen windows back in view when the mouse reaches screen edge, I have stopped the service to see what happens longer term. [Edit: Still does it with the AutoScroll service disabled, so it is not that!] Any one else seen this (mis)behaviour recently?

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                                          Rusty Bullet
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                                          (Tongue firmly in cheek)It is St. Patrick's Fay. Check for leprechauns.(/Tongue firmly in cheek) It sounds familiar. My mouse is a wired Kensington mouse and I had similar problems a year back. It turned out to be a nearly invisible hair in the optical socket for the mouse. Once removed, everything returned to normal.

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