Re: Toshiba laptop cursor jumping

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Barry Watzman typed on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:10:53 -0500:
There is an option in the control panel for the pointing device
(mouse) to hide the cursor while typing, try that. Also check all of
the settings for the "mouse". You may be accidentally hitting the
mouse pad while you type, and reducing the pad sensitivity may help. In an extreme case, you can disable the mouse pad. There is a very
slim chance that the pad is bad, much more likely that your settings
are not working for you.

Can't figure it out wrote:
Greetings,

I have this Toshiba laptop (not sure what model number it is but here
is what is written on the bottom: satellite#: M35X-S329, P/N:
PSA72U-00V00U). At any rate, I bought this for my wife a couple of
years ago for her schooling and I use it now during my job travels. I am at the point of throwing this thing in the trash can as I cannot
tolerate the following problem: Whenever I type an email or message
such as this, the cursor automatically (and completely randomly) will
reposition itself to a different place within my text message or will
just plainly open another new email message as if I enabled a hotkey
or similiar action. This eats up much time correcting and
re-entering data which will ultimately send this device to an early
grave launched from the Huey P Long bridge. Is this a software
function that I can turn off "HOT" keys or "suggestive" typing? Please help (and hurry!). I reviewed all other symptoms online and
mine appears to be a first. I'm sure that I already wasted a half
hour typing this simple plea. Thanks in advance.

You didn't mention if this laptop has a touchpad. If it does, many of them has an option "tap to click". If it is turned on, you can have this problem. Mine option is found by right clicking on the mouse driver in the System Tray. I can't find any other way to toggle this feature on my setup.

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Bill

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