Is your computer haunted?
 

Bloody Hell! I've had the weirdest experiance. I've just been sat here comparing numbers on a sheet of paper to numbers on the screen when I noticed the cursor going round in circles. Hey up! A virus, I thought..........then I looked down and the mouse was making little circles.

Before you ask - no, I've not been drinking. So what is the explanation for this phenomena?

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I would possibly suggest you consider one of the following.


You’ve got a tremor that’s vibrating your desk.

Your p*ss*d again and don’t remember the fact that you had 18 pints last night.

Your about to get a visit from Yvette Fielding with an OAP sorry, I mean VIP invitation to take part in a Most Haunted Special entitle “A p*ss*ed old fart and apparently dancing mouse”.

You’ve got a freaky mouse.

Garinda is hiding under your desk with a magnate.

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:o I do apologise. I thought you’d posted this in anything goes

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pmsl! Mr T, you haven't got a laser controlled mouse have you? I have one and mine has a life of it's own too!

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Nope I mean a laser controlled mouse :D.

I ditched the wireless mouse it was mmmm ... pooh but I kept with the wireless keyboard and have never had any problems with it yet.

opps yes I have had problems, I wanted to type 'guess it' in the chatroom one night but the batteries were going it typed 'guss it' instead ... it had a mind of it's own that night, it even called slinky a 'sink' :o

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Look...the mouse is a proper one, none of this wireless stuff.It has a wire coming out of it and that wire plugs into the back of the computer. The mouse sits on a mouse mat. About 2 hours ago, I looked and the mouse was moving from side to side and the cursor was making circles on the screen. What is the explanation, please?

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I can't think of an explanation Tea. Have you tried a bit of percussive maintenance....... It usually works for my electrical items...:D

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I don't know if your computer is haunted......but I had a very weird experience with mine a few years ago. It was the day my mother had been diagnosed with Cancer.....she was being nursed on the ward where I worked. I came home and after tea came upstairs to switch on the computer.....it went immediately to a blue screen......the sort you get just before the screen saver comes on......and slap bang in the middle of the screen was a drop down box with the words 'I'm here' in it......the box stayed visible for maybe 5 seconds and then FADED. I have never, ever had anything like that happen to me before or since.

I thought I was going a bit puddled......but at the same time there was a strong smell of cigarettes........so I took it to be my dear departed Dad......It shook me a bit, I can tell you,

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Why not pop along to your local spiritualist Church and see if anything comes through for you to confirm it. It’s now’t to worry about and not all Mediums are charlatans, better still if their certified.



http://www.snu.org.uk/c_nlc.htm

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Tealeaf, maybe there’s been a local earth tremor in your area. Did ow’t else move?

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I just love the freudian slip.

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Doug......I did that.....and nothing, zero, zilch.......but my Dad always denied that there was any sort of after life......so I know that he would never ever reveal himself in such a situation. The interesting thing is.....he was very much into electrical stuff and communication......he was a Radio Amateur.......and computers would have just been up his street. There is no way that the smell of cigarette could come from anyone in the house as no-one smoke in my house.

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If I hook me another magnate, I won't be arseing about under Tealeaf's desk, I'll be arseing about in the South of France.:)

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Mmmmmmm maybe your mouse is bored & wants some excitment or stuff to do. My old pc has shut off on its on accord before now during me mailing it was forever having pmt LOL

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Beats me how it happens then i have a laptop so i aint got a mouse with an attitude problem.....yet. :rolleyes:

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I have an optical mouse and the cursor often goes wandering across the screen on its own, usually from right to left but occaisionally from down to up. what does this mean?

As to the jiving mouse, I confess that I am at a loss to explain it, but I am sure that there is a thoroughly mundane reason for it - there always is.

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Sorry T, I too use a lap top!

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U haven't got cursor mania or downloaded a cursor??

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I have a laptop but I have connected an optical mouse as I prefer it to the pad. It's a USB one which is good as I don't have one of those round connectors.

I have a wireless optical mouse and keyboard, and it went a bit funny recently, so I changed the battery, which fixed it.

Maybe there was something playing with the cable which was moving it

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Not long ago i worked where we used an interactive white board and that had a mind of it's own. The mouse kept drawing lines, etc on the board. Very weird.

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i have some cordless headphones which are realy spookey,, they dont have to plugged into anything ,but i get americans on and it sounds like they are on a ship other times it sounds like some americans (again ) are on a rifle range ,theres shooting and some choice language,, i thought maybe it was picking up the coastguard or something.. realy scarey...

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nail your mouse to the desk that should stop it moving ;)

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If it was a laser mouse, I would be able to understand it.

Last week mine was playing up something rotten!!...........moving on its own, not moving when i wanted it to, that kind of thing.
After a couple of days of banging it real hard on the computer desk (this didn't make a difference by the way):D , I thought I would investigate.

To my amusement, a stray dog hair had got lodged in it which sent the mouse cuckoo, one good blow (no innuendos please) and it was up and running again!!;)

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No innuendo's slinky:eek: thats a first LOL!!!!!!!

Why dont people stay with good ole fashion serial wheel mouse like me i dont have problems with mine as it knows ive many more mouses in the house to use - that seems to do the trick :) lol

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I have tried using the mice with the ball, and they always, without exception, stop working properly after a few weeks - I open up the mouse and there is all sorts of stuff stuck to the rollers.

It's optical all the way for me, and if its wireless, then even better!

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tea-leaf when someone spills copious amounts of beer on the table i have seen glasses slide around and ashtrays ! ask less he has performed this trick on numerous occasions....:D ....was just wondering if you have knocked over a bottle of the old claret stuff?

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Prefer the ghost theory to a booze covered table either that or some very big and full wagons passing. Maybe someone or something was making ther earth move.
;)

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I'm having a blonde moment ...... what's an optical mouse please ........ is it one that I was describing as a laser mouse, one with the red light underneath? :o

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You are going to have to have fewer of these "blonde moments" they are going to ruin your reputation.
:D

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i had the cursors and mouse moving and i had an optical mouse. Doesnt do it now though because i found out when i asked someone. Turned out that it was to do with the mouse mat i was using and as soon as i stopped using the mouse mat it stopped. The mouse mat was patterned and that was why it was going crazy.

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:eek: I have a reputation!! Now that is worrying pmsl! :o


What's an optical mouse? I will not rest til I know!

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it is the laser mouse as you mentioned earlier as for your reputation tinks, less said about that the better me thinks!!! ;)

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Thanks red at least I know now and as for my rep fff ....anks red :D pmsl!!

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Stop putting blond moment posts out and your reputation will be lilly white......

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:eek: OY lol! It's just that computers aren't my forte ........ even I can't be good at EVERYTHING ya know ;)

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You will just jhave to train the computer to behave then.