Cursor Moves by Itself

Last night while surfing the net using my ever reliable Dell Latiude D410 laptop, something strange happens. I have seen my mouse moves by itself as if someone had hack to my computer and is trying to manipulate my laptop. So I did try to shutdown my computer and reboot but still the problem persisted. Since I am using a wireless router, I suspected that it maybe caused by some interference or something, so I tried to just ignore it, but then, the problem still persisted that its quite annoying seeing your cursor moving by itself. The cursor moves up by itself to the left of the screen, heading for the topleft corner and then slowly along the top edge to the left corner or sometimes it moves diagonally up or down the corner of the screen.

Does anyone know what could be causing this, I have run a virus scan and adaware and spybot and these programs did not found any virus or malwares. Any ideas ?

Would be grateful if anyone could suggest a fix to this problem.


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PC keeps on rebooting

My friend's PC keeps on rebooting after a certain period of time (ie. every 5 or 10 minutes). She confirmed to me that this strange restart problem only happen 2 days ago and that her PC was functioning normally before that. After checking that there was no loose wire connections on the PC, I suspected that there might be a virus that had infected her PC, I tried to download antivirus from the internet but then the PC would restart in the middle of the download or even before we could successfully connect to the internet Luckily the windows system restore option was enabled so I then tried to restore the PCs operating system to previous week state. The PC then rebooted after restoration of previous weeks image and the strange restart problem never occured again.

Here's the step that I did to restore the PC to its previous backup image using Windows System Restore.

1. Log on to Windows as Administrator.

2. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click System Restore. System Restore starts.

3. On the Welcome to System Restore page, click Restore my computer to an earlier time (if it is not already selected), and then click Next.

4. On the Select a Restore Point page, click the most recent system checkpoint in the On this list, click a restore point list, and then click Next.
A System Restore message may appear that lists configuration changes that System Restore will make. Click OK.

5. On the Confirm Restore Point Selection page, click Next.
System Restore restores the previous Windows XP configuration, and then restarts the computer.

6. Log on to the computer as Administrator. The System Restore Restoration Complete page appears. Click OK.


So how do you ensure that the System Restore option in Windows was enabled in your PC or laptop ? To ensure that it was turn on do the following steps :
1. Click Start.

2. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

3. Click the System Restore tab.

4. Uncheck "Turn off System Restore" or "Turn off System Restore on all drives."

5. Click Apply, and then click OK.


Does your PC has some strange problems after downloading some softwares or music from the internet ? You may want to consider Window's System Restore as one of your option. Its really a great feature of Windows.


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