Windows W8.1 - Rogue Cursor

So I just started using Windows 8.1 and I'm having a problem where the cursor seems to randomly fly off into the corner of the screen (usually the top left).

It seems to happen at the most inconvenient times, just as I'm about to click, often resulting in me being redirected somewhere and spending the next 2 minutes cursing and trying to work out how to close whatever I just ended up clicking on and get back to where I was.

(Potentially) Relevant Info:
-Desktop PC
-Generic PS/2 mouse
-Windows 8.1 Pro
-Reasonably clean install of windows, haven't installed anything yet

Cheers

 

Try attaching the mouse to the other pc or maybe use another mouse if possible?

 

usually a damaged cable can cause this behaviour, it might be intermittent

 

Try cleaning off the sensor and/or the mouse surface. Most of time when my mouse starts doing that it is the cause.
Otherwise, using these settings may help - copy to notepad and save as .reg

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse] 
"SmoothMouseXCurve"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,a0,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,40,\ 
01,00,00,00,00,00,00,80,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,00,00 
"SmoothMouseYCurve"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,66,a6,02,00,00,00,00,00,cd,4c,\ 
05,00,00,00,00,00,a0,99,0a,00,00,00,00,00,38,33,15,00,00,00,00,00 

Turn off acceleration in the mouse settings. Make sure snap to is off.

 

Also, check and make sure your mouse is nice and tight into the USB, and if the issue keeps happening, try another usb port.

 

Thanks for the responses.

Tried a different mouse connected via USB and that worked fine.

Didn't have a spare PS/2 mouse to hand and I didn't get round to trying the mouse in a different PC, so I can't be sure whether it was a problem with the mouse or the PS/2 port.