My mouse usually at the same time every day for the past couple of days suddenly closes out firefox, goes to start and starts opening up programs like run and network settings and things like that. Usually if I keep hitting ESC it'll stop after a few minutes. I've run several different virus scanners and nothing came up. I don't have control over the mouse at all when this occurs. Can someone please tell me how to make this stop? I run WinXP on a Dell Inspiron. It's a laptop. Service pack 3.

Does this happen for all accounts? Have you tried a new mouse? "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

i'm using a touchpad and this is the only account.

have you tried running Anti-Malware? http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Go to Church, get some Holy Water, sprinkle it on the touch pad as you shout "I beseech thee get out, I beseech thee, get out" over and over again. ;) Seriously, I recently had a laptop in the shop with a similar problem and it turned out to be the on-board mouse/keyboard controller. Cleaning the contacts helped, but did not completely stop this from happening. There is also a setting in the Touch pad options that says something like 'Automatically move cursor to highlighted area" or something similar. Unchecking that box also helped. hope this helps. Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!

You so funny Musky, I snorted coffee out my nose laughin at taht.

LOL! If all else fails, I might as well do that.