mouse sticking on tooltips

Windows XP >> mouse sticking on tooltips Hello,
I am running XP Pro SP2 on a fast new laptop. For a few weeks all has
been good but over the last few days my cursor has been sticking
randomly when I move it over or passed an icon, link, the start bar,
anything that generates a tool tip. It's only momentary but is
beginning to become very annoying. My mouse is also new, a Microsoft
Notebook Optical Mouse 3000. This occurs even by running the cursor
across the taskbar straight after start up with no software
applications running.

I have a second similar laptop with the same setup and running
virtually the same software and even an identical mouse. The second
machine in almost a year old and does not have this problem. Swapping
the mice between machines doesn't fix the problem.

Has anyone else experienced this - does anyone know the solution?

Thanks
Shutey

Windows XP145

Windows XP >> mouse sticking on tooltips EMail@HideDomain.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running XP Pro SP2 on a fast new laptop. For a few weeks all has
> been good but over the last few days my cursor has been sticking
> randomly when I move it over or passed an icon, link, the start bar,
> anything that generates a tool tip. It's only momentary but is
> beginning to become very annoying. My mouse is also new, a Microsoft
> Notebook Optical Mouse 3000. This occurs even by running the cursor
> across the taskbar straight after start up with no software
> applications running.
>
> I have a second similar laptop with the same setup and running
> virtually the same software and even an identical mouse. The second
> machine in almost a year old and does not have this problem. Swapping
> the mice between machines doesn't fix the problem.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this - does anyone know the solution?
>
> Thanks
> Shutey

This might help.. In Control Panel, Mouse, Motion tab, disable "Smart Move".

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Joe =o)

Windows XP >> mouse sticking on tooltips On 16 Jun, 21:59, Elmo <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote:
> EMail@HideDomain.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am running XP Pro SP2 on a fast new laptop. For a few weeks all has
> > been good but over the last few days my cursor has been sticking
> > randomly when I move it over or passed an icon, link, the start bar,
> > anything that generates a tool tip. It's only momentary but is
> > beginning to become very annoying. My mouse is also new, a Microsoft
> > Notebook Optical Mouse 3000. This occurs even by running the cursor
> > across the taskbar straight after start up with no software
> > applications running.
>
> > I have a second similar laptop with the same setup and running
> > virtually the same software and even an identical mouse. The second
> > machine in almost a year old and does not have this problem. Swapping
> > the mice between machines doesn't fix the problem.
>
> > Has anyone else experienced this - does anyone know the solution?
>
> > Thanks
> > Shutey
>
> This might help.. In Control Panel, Mouse, Motion tab, disable "Smart Move".
>
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> Joe =o)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thanks for this suggestion but the IntelliPoint mouse driver does not
have a "Smart Move" function. I have however checked all the mouse
functionality and ensured it is reduced to the minimum both in the
mouse control and accessibility control areas. Accesibility controls
do have a sort of "smart move" function but this was already turned
off. I have also run the UniBlue Registry checker but still the
annoying problem persists.

Thanks again, any other ideas?

Windows XP >> mouse sticking on tooltips EMail@HideDomain.com wrote:
> On 16 Jun, 21:59, Elmo <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote:
>> EMail@HideDomain.com wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I am running XP Pro SP2 on a fast new laptop. For a few weeks all has
>>> been good but over the last few days my cursor has been sticking
>>> randomly when I move it over or passed an icon, link, the start bar,
>>> anything that generates a tool tip. It's only momentary but is
>>> beginning to become very annoying. My mouse is also new, a Microsoft
>>> Notebook Optical Mouse 3000. This occurs even by running the cursor
>>> across the taskbar straight after start up with no software
>>> applications running.
>>> I have a second similar laptop with the same setup and running
>>> virtually the same software and even an identical mouse. The second
>>> machine in almost a year old and does not have this problem. Swapping
>>> the mice between machines doesn't fix the problem.
>>> Has anyone else experienced this - does anyone know the solution?
>>> Thanks
>>> Shutey
>> This might help.. In Control Panel, Mouse, Motion tab, disable "Smart Move".
>>
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>> Joe =o)- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Thanks for this suggestion but the IntelliPoint mouse driver does not
> have a "Smart Move" function. I have however checked all the mouse
> functionality and ensured it is reduced to the minimum both in the
> mouse control and accessibility control areas. Accesibility controls
> do have a sort of "smart move" function but this was already turned
> off. I have also run the UniBlue Registry checker but still the
> annoying problem persists.

Perhaps the "Open submenus when I pause on them with my mouse" option is
the cause. Right-click the Start button, click Properties, Customize
button, Advanced tab. It's the top item.

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Joe =o)