Mouse 'stuck' at same screen position

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This behaviour is hard to describe to please bear with me.

Windows 8.1 64-bit PC.
Yesterday, for no obvious reason, the mouse on my other PC froze at one position on the screen. I had not updated anything just before it so can't relate this to anything in particular.

The mouse jumps to a position on the screen when I click it anywhere - or even just move it. It is like the mouse is being returned by software as I can move the mouse around and I see it try to move but then it immediately jumps back to the place its stuck at.

It is a wireless mouse so I changed battery - no different. Rebooted - same problem. I changed the mouse for a USB mouse - exactly the same. Ran various malware/spyware programs, nothing found.

I discovered during the malware check that if I alt-tab to the malwarebytes window that the window title is below the mouse and if I click-drag I can move the app window around the mouse moves with it. Upon release the mouse is freely moving again - but if I click it anywhere on the screen it jumps back to its 'stuck' position. This 'stuck' position is around the middle of the screen but can vary by a few hundred pixels.

I have two monitors - though not sure that's relevant.

I can find no other reports of this behaviour online despite a couple of hours Googling.
Any thoughts?
 
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Yes, if I restart into UEFI the mouse is fine in there - but when I click to continue into 8.1 it is 'grabbed' as soon as the desktop is up. So it seems clear that it's something loading in the startup process that causes it.
 
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Try reinstalling your video drivers. The mouse pointer isn't actually drawn by Windows. Windows just tells the video card what the ouse pointer looks like, where it is, and the video card draws the mouse pointer at that location (this makes overlaying the pointer on top of windows and other graphics a lot quicker and smoother).
 
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That confirms its a software problem , Whether its a windows component , the mouse driver , or the graphics driver might be moot if you can never click on anything .
If you could I'd say head to device manager and uninstall the mouse driver .

But if I understand correctly that you can NEVER use the mouse then you are going to have to try starting in safemode
http://www.7tutorials.com/5-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-8-windows-81
In safemode no drivers will be loaded and I would be thinking your mouse will work .

Head to device manager and uninstall the mouse driver . Reboot . Windows will reinstall a mouse driver .

If that doesnt work you could try the same process but uninstall the graphics driver instead .

If that doesnt work then use the option to refresh windows, or just upgrade to win 10 while you are in safemode [ with networking ]
 
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Ok, time for me to eat humble pie and admit I am feeling embarrassed.
The "problem" was caused by my Wacom pad .... the stylus for it had rolled onto the drawing area of the pad - which was underneath a few papers on my desk so I missed it completely. I found it while staring at the screen, waiting for inspiration and pushed the papers away and saw the mouse pointer move with them. It then dawned on me.
Sorry for wasting time here.
 
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