Does anyone know what causes this to happen on my computer?

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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Every once in awhile my arrow that I use to point to what I want to click on turns into a very small triangle with a small dot under it. Then the page I'm on starts to scroll down very fast and I can't stop it. It actually makes me dizzy watching it. I can't move the bar up or down either. The only way I can stop it is to turn my computer off or sometimes I can get to the bottom of my computer screen and go to another site. Then I can go back to where I was and everything is ok. I can go days without it happening then it will do it again. I have been posting on this site and have to start over because right in the middle of the post the problem starts. Any idea what could be happening?
 

Tell us what kind of mouse you have. Is it wireless or wired in.?

The arrow is called a cursor.

It may be coming from your mouse. The wheel on the mouse. If you press on the wheel it changes into scroll mode.
 
Ruth, this old article says it has to do with clicking of the wheel in the center of the mouse. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-09-20/business/9909200013_1_windows-temporary-internet-web-page
Anyway, the object of your frustration is neither gender-related nor a bug, Ms. W.; it's a feature called Intellimouse.


Your husband apparently is clicking the little wheel at the front of your newfangled mouse between the left clicker and the right clicker.

That wheel is called the automatic scrolling wheel, and once you click it, the cursor changes to that dot plus triangle affair. Thereafter, moving the mouse backward and forward makes the whole screen scroll.

All you need to do is click the wheel a second time and the pesky thing will stop.

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Ruth n Jersey said:
Every once in awhile my arrow that I use to point to what I want to click on turns into a very small triangle with a small dot under it. Then the page I'm on starts to scroll down very fast and I can't stop it. It actually makes me dizzy watching it. I can't move the bar up or down either. The only way I can stop it is to turn my computer off or sometimes I can get to the bottom of my computer screen and go to another site. Then I can go back to where I was and everything is ok. I can go days without it happening then it will do it again. I have been posting on this site and have to start over because right in the middle of the post the problem starts. Any idea what could be happening?
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I agree with Camper6. I have a similar problem on mine. I just click on the symbol and I go back to normal. Not my personality. It never goes back to normal.
 
Camper and SeaBreeze thank you so much! I tried it and it worked. I could have spent hours researching this problem and you solved it in minutes. Leave it to the seniors to figure things out. None better!
 
I have a Logitech wired mouse and that is no problem you are having with the cursor. You just click the wheel to turn on or off. If I am reading something long, instead of sitting there scrolling by hand, I often sit back & set the wheel at any speed and it will scroll by itself while I read. Just move the mouse up or down,whichever way you want it to go & then just click it to stop.
 

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