Suddenly the other day my cursor started acting up. It will occasionally freeze in one position and become unusable. When this happens, unplugging it from the PS/2 port and plugging it back in usually fixes it.
I also have frequent moments where my cursor will lock up in one spot for a couple seconds, and the rest of my system will freeze too for that time, music skips, etc.
Now the really big one, twice now in the last day, my cursor has gone crazy... for a couple seconds, it will jump around the screen randomly clicking different buttons on different things faster than my eye can follow. A second or two later, I'll ave control of the cursor again, but Windows Explorer will be all messed up with contextual menus frozen in place everywhere and random windows opened/closed. Also, I will not be able to click on anything again until I hit Control+Alt+del to bring up the task manager - explorer will not respond to mouse clicks.
The last thing I did before it started happening was install Windows Movie Maker. Incidentally, the installation must have screwed up, because there's no uninstall data in the registry. Running the program froze my computer for several minutes until I force-quit Windows Explorer, and I haven't touched it since. The only other recent installation I can think of that may be affecting it would be WindowBlinds, which I applied several hours prior.
EDIT: Windows XP Pro SP2
Logitech MX518 mouse
MSI P6N SLI Platinum Mobo
I also have frequent moments where my cursor will lock up in one spot for a couple seconds, and the rest of my system will freeze too for that time, music skips, etc.
Now the really big one, twice now in the last day, my cursor has gone crazy... for a couple seconds, it will jump around the screen randomly clicking different buttons on different things faster than my eye can follow. A second or two later, I'll ave control of the cursor again, but Windows Explorer will be all messed up with contextual menus frozen in place everywhere and random windows opened/closed. Also, I will not be able to click on anything again until I hit Control+Alt+del to bring up the task manager - explorer will not respond to mouse clicks.
The last thing I did before it started happening was install Windows Movie Maker. Incidentally, the installation must have screwed up, because there's no uninstall data in the registry. Running the program froze my computer for several minutes until I force-quit Windows Explorer, and I haven't touched it since. The only other recent installation I can think of that may be affecting it would be WindowBlinds, which I applied several hours prior.
EDIT: Windows XP Pro SP2
Logitech MX518 mouse
MSI P6N SLI Platinum Mobo