Ghost volume icon appearing randomly on screen

I have a volume icon that appears on my screen, and much like a ghost in the night, it upsets things..primarily it messes with my mouse to the point where it moves slowly and has difficulty going where I want it to go. When I shut down, it goes away for a while, but then reappears.

It sounds like you have some sort of Backup software that mounts an external drive or network drive periodically.
Generally Macs become less responsive during backups -- and that might explain the jerky mouse movement.

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