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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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I farking hate  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.
Software Zen: delete this;
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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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I have had similar behavior when I have accidentally left my travel mouse on in my backpack.
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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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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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When anyone at the office complains about this type of symptoms, my first question is, "do you have any paperwork, magazines, or books that are getting onto your keyboard?" My second question is whether the scroll-lock light is on. I will often get an "Oh. That fixed it" comment. If they tell me "no", then I send out a replacement keyboard for them. With only rare exception, that fixes the problem. For those exceptions, I replace the mouse.
There are many things that can be adversely affected by "stuck keys" on the keyboard, including mouse functions like scrolling. If you are someone that eats at your desk (I do that too) you could have crumbs, oils, coffee, cola, mold (yes, I have seen that one at someones desk before ), or something else that is affecting keys. Those keyboard cleaners that look like you are pressing silly putty onto your keyboard actually to an excellent job. I find they work better than canned air, brushes, or mini vacuums in most cases (although I like the combination of keyboard putty and canned air).
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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When I accidently press/click the wheel in the middle between the left and right buttons, it gets into that mode. Then when I click the wheel again, it returns to normal mouse mode.
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Damage digital indication to interrupt flow (10)
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The only thing I could think of was tourniquet, but I had no idea how to derive it from the clue.
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Solution please ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The question is what are they moving to...
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From my reading of the article, they are cutting back on social media in general. I suspect the article names Farcebook as a placeholder for "Social media in general".
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Perhaps they just take a nice walk in the park.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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megaadam wrote: Perhaps they just take a nice walk in the park.
... preferably off a cliff, like the lemmings they are. :evil grin:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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There there, it is the ones still staring at their screens who will step in front of a bus.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Best use of Darwin's law that I have heard of.
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From the article:
Quote: Interestingly, the findings indicate that the more educated people are, the more likely they are to try to successfully reduce time on social media.
"There's a link between education and disconnecting [from using social media platforms]," Dr Patulny said.
"If you have a university degree, you are most likely to switch off. With a high school or trade qualification, you're likely to have tried and not disconnected, and if you're in high school you're not likely to have tried to disconnect at all.
Left unsaid: they were splashing around in the shallow end of the gene pool, anyway.
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