Laptop mouse problems

[Crispy's Critter]

Hey guys, I'm having a problem with my mouse cursor on my laptop. What's happening is that basically the cursor gets stuck/jumps around. This happens with both the pad and when I hook up a usb mouse. Basically it's fine if it's just mousing over the desktop, but if I open anything at all such as a browser, or even just mouse over the taskbar it starts freezing/jumping. I've used enditall to close down everything but essential services one at a time to see if I could find what's causing it, but that didn't pinpoint it. any advice, or anything to check on? Thanks

[ricosuave]

windows? try booting into safe mode and see if it makes a difference

also, try another usb port, and if you can, another mouse

[Crispy's Critter]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

windows? try booting into safe mode and see if it makes a difference

also, try another usb port, and if you can, another mouse

Thanks for the suggestion. it's running windows vista. I tried all the mice I had in all the different ports, and tried again just using the touchpad, seems to be getting worse. I might just shut down my computer for a bit, let it cool down, as since my desktop crapped out this thing is my main comp, and has been running steady for a couple weeks, and seems to be running quite hot. Don't know if that would affect it or not, but just another thing to try

[Crispy's Critter]

OK so I was pretty much ready to format this thing and start over, since I really haven't put anything on it, being it's less than a month old. For some reason it popped into my head to just use a basic cursor instead of the 3D one they had put on, and it seems to have fixed the stuttering problem. What a ridiculous thing to cause those sort of problems.