My desktop is moving with my mouse

My desktop is moving when I move my mouse

Turn off Zoom from the Universal Access and Keyboard & Mouse panes of System Preferences.
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    Hi Samsong-
    You have zoom enabled on the mouse.
    If you hold the control key while scrolling up or down is one way zoom becomes enabled and the mouse will do that. Try holding the control key down and scroll all the way out.
    Zoom can be configured in the mouse preferences.
    Luck-
    -DaddyPaycheck

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    I've been having this problem where I can't use the move tool with the mouse properly. I'll go and select a single item on a layer and then try to move it with the mouse (move tool). I've done this before and still do it all the time on Photoshop on my other machines. However, on my laptop it won't work. I grab the single object I want to move and the second I move it, it defaults to moving every single layer in my file. The only way to get around it is to use the arrows, but that's becoming laborious and frustrating.
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    Chitown2000 wrote:
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    Is your problem the same one I have? Don't know, but it sure sounds familiar. I did manage to fix the problem by accident, because I'm not really sure what I did to fix it, but I wrote down the incident what I was doing when it was corrected. I stored it away just in case it ever happened again.
    I don't even remember what forum I was on when I wrote this, but here's what I wrote and maybe it will help, hopefully:
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