Cursor jumps all over the page or form when typing

[Guest Keith]

When I am typing - especially online forms like this one, the cursor will

just jump to another place and my characters/texts get inserted wherever it

jumped.

 

I am using Windows XP Pro on a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop. I just started

having this problem.

 

Any thoughts.

 

Keith

[Guest db.·.. >]

Re: Cursor jumps all over the page or form when typing

 

sometimes they are

highly sensitive and

as your typing away,

you may be actually

making contact with

the mousepad.

 

the other possibility is

that you are running short

on memory 'or' the cpu

is in overdrive in the

background.

 

but there is also a possibility

that there is defective hardware

involved too, since it is not

uncommon that a china made

component become faulty.

 

you might want to double

check the homesite and see

if there is an updated driver

and perhaps simply reinstall

it onto your machine.

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you might want to double

check your mouse driver

interrupt and see if there

is another component sharing

the interrupt for the mouse.

if so, then switch it to a different

one.

 

also perhaps set the mouse

pad to be less sensitive.

as a test you might want

to disable it temporarily

while typing a document

to see if the issue has ceased.

 

keep in mind that most

mouse clicks can be substituted

by keyboard keys, so use them

while testing the computer

while the mouse is disabled.

 

also, you might want to disable

altogether the mouse pad and

use a usb mouse instead.

 

for me i find it very comfortable

to attach a usb keyboard as well,

thus bypassing the laptop kb

and mouse pad altogether.

 

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another test is to go into

safemode with networking

and see if the issue ceases

in that mode as well.

 

msoffice and the internet

is made available in the

safemode w/networking

option.

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db·´¯`·...¸><)))º>

 

 

 

"Keith" <Keith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:31D31149-B7B7-4D97-8E01-98BCB2415A73@microsoft.com...

> When I am typing - especially online forms like this one, the cursor will

> just jump to another place and my characters/texts get inserted wherever it

> jumped.

>

> I am using Windows XP Pro on a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop. I just started

> having this problem.

>

> Any thoughts.

>

> Keith