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08-09-2007, 10:49 PM
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Cursor jumping around when using laptop
i always hated my dads dell laptops because when you are typing sometimes the cursor will just jump to a complete random spot on the screen and then your typing will end up going like in the middle of a sentence you just wrote or something. i figured it was unique to his laptops, but then when using mine i just started noticing the same thing happened. i might try using vista instead of XP pro x64 for a while (it has a dual boot; see sig) and see if that resolves it, but has anyone heard of this before/how did you fix it?
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08-09-2007, 10:55 PM
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Are you typing, and your hand rubs on the little pad thing that moves the cursor...? That'd do it...haha.
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08-10-2007, 09:28 AM
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nope. i thought that too but thats definitely not it. also you would have to click on a certain spot to the get the little cursor to blink there.
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08-10-2007, 09:33 AM
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Most of the time it is the touchpad that is the problem. I had one the other day that was doing that. For some reason it turned out to be a bluetooth phone was causing the touchpad to be extra sensitive. Turning down the sensitivity on the touchpad seemed to fix it.
You could test that by turning off the touchpad and seeing if it still did it.
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08-10-2007, 10:19 AM
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I had the same problem with my Dell laptop. I thought it was the touchpad so I cut a piece of cardboard and put it over the touchpad for verification purposes, and it didn't happen again.
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08-10-2007, 01:03 PM
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