Mouse Lagging...?

Question

My Laptop’s touchpad and the USB attached notebook mouse both lag on occasion. This happens when I'm browsing, or when I open a file. I updated the drivers for both the touchpad and the USB mouse. What can honestly be the problem? The laptop had Vista preinstalled on it and I managed to install XP on it. The laptop specs are as follows:

Toshiba Satellite
A135-S4467
Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz
!536 RAM
160GB Hard Drive (48GB C, 100GB D)
Windows XP Professional

The laptop is a new model; I believe it was released late January of 07. If you have any suggestions, that’d be great; I've tried everything in my arsenal. Thanks.

Answer 1

Your computer should be extremely fast.

I have noticed with all browsers while a page is loading the browser may not allow you to open other tabs, or perform other browser operations. until the page has finishes loading. During this time the cursor moves normally.

Try disabling all your browser add-ons temporarily. If the problem goes away it may be a problem with an add-on.
I had problems with the Widows Live Toolbar and two ATT-Yahoo add-ins.

Open the Task manager and find out where your system resources are being used, especially when it lags.

Do you have a lot of applications running in the background?
Run PC Pitstop "full tests" http://www.pcpitstop.com/
It will tell you what applications can be removed from the startup group with msconfig to improve performance. It will also compare your performance with identical systems and highlight problems and give tips to improve performance.

Did you install all the drivers (Video, USB buss, disk controller, Chipset Drivers, etc. if needed)? Check Toshiba support site.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_home.jsp

Was a virus scan running? It could load down the system.
Are you running 2 antivirus products , there could be a conflict.
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Virus and Spyware
I doubt it is this as you just installed XP but you never know.

Install the following five programs and run weekly or at least monthly. You need all five. They are not a substitute for full time spyware and virus protection.

Ad-Aware SE Personal (update + full scan)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Spybot Search & Destroy (update + immunize + scan)
Do not enable Tea Timer and SDHelper
After installation: update + scan + immunize
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

SpywareBlaster: Update then open and click “enable all protection”.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SUPERAntiSpyware free version: (update + scan)
http://www.superantispyware.com/

CCleaner: Do not install toolbar and recycle bin options
Options:
Set to run when computer starts.
Place cookies you want to keep in the save list.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Note if a scan detects a problem but is unable to remove, start the computer in safe mode with the internet line disconnected and run a full scan.
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Additional run this time and as needed.

Microsoft OneCare Live, run “full service scan”
Updates windows, virus and spyware scan, disk cleanup, disk fragmentation (if needed), backs up registry and then cleans registry, and checks for open firewall ports
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

Malicious Software Removal Tool (run “full scan”)
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
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Rootkit Removal Guide
http://safecomputing.umn.edu/guides/scan_unhackme.html

Rootkit revealer: Close all programs first and then run.
Does not remove rootkits. Not all results will be malware!
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/RootkitRevealer.mspx

Rootkits Removers

AVG Anti-Rootkit
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-avg-anti-rootkit-update-app-art/?ver=1.1.0.29

F-Secure BlackLight
http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/

Sophos Anti-Rootkit
http://www.sophos.com/products/free-tools/sophos-anti-rootkit.html
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Online Free Scanners:

Trend Micro: HouseCall Free Scan (removes what it finds)
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
BitDefender Online Scanner http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
Kaspersky Labs Online Scanner http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
McAfee http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp?affid=294
Panda ActiveScan Free Online Scanner http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan?
Symantic Online Scanner http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/ssc_eula.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=ALUFRHYTINMHDKDCWLL&vc_scanstate=2
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Additional Information read:
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal_and_Prevention:_Overview
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Prevention:_Prevent_Re-infection
http://www.castlecops.com/f67-Hijackthis_Spyware_Viruses_Worms_Trojans_Oh_My.html
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://aumha.org/secure.htm
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.php
http://www.castlecops.com/t102301-Hijackthis_Guidelines_Read_Before_Posting.html
http://www.techsupportforum.com/security-center/hijackthis-log-help/15968-please-read-before-posting-
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=4075&sid=901703d08c2ace31389ffef2d84b6607

Answer 2

Mouse and keyboard lag have develop into further and extra undemanding with all forms of video games, in spite of ways stressful the hardware criteria may be or how effective the gadget is it truly is operating the game. the straightforward answer for your question is that that's amazingly not likely to be hardware appropriate. truly, it not often is, in spite of the undeniable fact that it truly is the first advice you receives from almost each body once you ask about it. instead, that's likely with reference to the actual undeniable actuality that your video card and USB mouse share an IRQ. that's fairly counterintuitive, yet upgrading your hardware drivers received't restore the priority and sometimes will make it worse. instead, downgrade to DirectX 8.a million from DirectX 9, use older video drivers particularly than the hot (particularly for nVidia hardware), and in case you take advantage of an ATI video card, google for fixes to hotkey polling complications. also, you may want to attempt making use of a playstation /2 mouse particularly than a USB mouse. or you would possibly want to get a playstation /2 adapter on your USB mouse. inspite of this, you would possibly want to attempt having as few USB peripherals connected as plausible for your equipment at any given time.

Answer 3

Could be how fast/slow data is being transfered/accessed.

Your computer might be freezing up because of the large/small-ness of the file.

But with such a good lil laptop there, there is no logical reason. Your computer should still have some tech support, 3 months? Might be pushing it.

Answer 4

it happens cause ur notebook has trouble multi-tasking. try not moving the mouse for 2 seconds after uve opened a big file or a browser. it should help. if note, seace hope :)

Answer 5

my best guess would be delete your mouse then plug it back in and see if it finds new hardware