Jumping cursor when I type

teech · Scooby Slapper Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Karma :

Hello,

I know this should probably go in the geek zone but I figure I might get a quicker response here.

When I'm typing a document the cursor jumps to another point on the page and continues what I typing in completely the wrong place. This happens fairly frequently and is getting bloody annoying.

Does anyone else get this? If so, how on earth do you fix it?

Si
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ncrn · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 May 2006 Karma :

Are you on a laptop?
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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

I had that problem with an acer, the tapping in the mouse was so sensitive my typing would send it all over the place and it was deleting what I typed and generally irritating the hell out of me. There is somewhere in there that you can set it with a delay so it dosnt do it.
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teech · Scooby Slapper Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Karma :

Yes, its on a laptop, but it is doing it with me no where near the touch pad. It only started when I upgraded to windows 7.

Can't find any way to make adjustments on the tough pad any way. Not happy.
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Blue_SV650S · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Nov 2008 Karma :

teech · Scooby Slapper Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Karma :

Vey funny!!

This also happened to me on a different computer years ago, so actually I don't think it's a windows 7 bug. God knows what I did about it back then....
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Blue_SV650S · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Nov 2008 Karma :

Try disabling the touch pad (use USP mouse) and see if it still does it.

If it doesn't, then consider re-installing the touch pad drivers/software.

To be honest, this would probably be a good first move anyway! Wink

It might be the physical touch pad is faulty too ... i.e. it is a bit over sensitive and even if you are not physically touching it, it does its own thing from time to time just under typing vibrations ...
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