[Melodi]

Hello:
I have a laptop that I had reformatted for someone and loaded Windows Home Edition. Before I even did this, I noticed that sometimes the mouse would drift off and become usless for 5 to 10 minutes then it would recover. Both with an external mouse and the mouse pad. It seemed to happen when a 'bigger type' job was going on, ie..burning a CD. Sounds like maybe memory or resources, but it also happens while typing in MS Word. I have it back today because the girl says the mouse thing is annoying and that the machine shuts down by itself. The battery is no good, but it is plugged into the adapter. All window updates are down, I'm using bitdefender AV on it. I have it hooked up here at work, dialed into peoplepc and i just downloaded a 3 mg file and it's been on line for over an hour and i'm not seeing any problem other than the mouse thing.
Windows Xp Home
P3 902Mh
256 ram