Slowly going insane

[madgewildfire]

I have an Asus laptop and want to use it for writing my novel. My problem is the touchpad. When I'm typing the cursor jumps all over the place. I downloaded a piece of software called TouchFreeze which is supposed to stop this annoyance; but it doesn;t work for me. I'm not at all technical so can you please make your advice simple. Thanks in anticipation.:)

[KenB]

Hi and welcome to ExTS

 

I had a laptop and the keyboard drove me to distraction too.

My solution - a wireless mini-mouse.

click here

 

I have a new laptop - but I still use the mini-mouse :)

 

This will not make the mousepad inactive - so you may still get the problem if you inadvertently touch the pad.

 

Take a look here - it may help too.

click here

You could try setting the delay under "Touchpad" to "Long Delay" or if it is on "Short" try "Medium" first.

[madgewildfire]

Thank you KenB.

I will try all of your advice and see if it works. Fingers Crossed!

[madgewildfire]

Many thanks

 

Hi and welcome to ExTS

 

I had a laptop and the keyboard drove me to distraction too.

My solution - a wireless mini-mouse.

click here

 

I have a new laptop - but I still use the mini-mouse :)

 

This will not make the mousepad inactive - so you may still get the problem if you inadvertently touch the pad.

 

Take a look here - it may help too.

click here

You could try setting the delay under "Touchpad" to "Long Delay" or if it is on "Short" try "Medium" first.

 

Many thanks. Will try all the advice and see if it works.

[Armageddon]

I also have a Asus so just to add to KenB's post pressing the fn ( function key ) along with f9 will stop the touchpad working, so along with a wireless mouse as Ken suggested hopefully that would solve your problem.

[madgewildfire]

Thank you, Armageddon. I must say, I am finding this forum most helpful and I will let you know if it all works for me; which I am sure it will.