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Anonymous Posted on Mar 03, 2012

On my laptop, the cursor jumps unpredictably to previously entered text.

While I'm entering text on the laptop, in any app, the cursor will suddenly jump backwards to a random spot. There is no pattern to its behavior: -It's not triggered by hitting a certain key or pattern of keys -I'm not hitting two keys at once -It happens regardless of the speed of my typing -It jumps varying distances each time it occurs Unless I'm watching the screen as I type, I'll look up and realize that the cursor is several lines above where it should be and that I'm entering text in the middle of words. To fix this, I tried running a virus scan (which turned up nothing) and also did a system restore back to a point before this happened, but it still continues. In this description alone, it has jumped an average of twice/line! Frustrating! Thanks for your help!

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The space bar 'contacts', internally are dirty or defective. You will probably need to replace the keyboard or seek from manufacturer a 'cleaning process ' for this keyboard.

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I had the same problem with my dell laptop. It must be a software/spyware issue because the problem stay with my hard drive. Putting this hard drive in a new laptop caused the problem with the new laptop. Putting a new hard drive to the old laptop fixed it. The problem seems to occurs when I type faster. Any comments would be welcomed

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    I had the same problem with my dell laptop. It must be a software/spyware issue because the problem stay with my hard drive. Putting this hard drive in a new laptop caused the problem with the new laptop. Putting a new hard drive to the old laptop fixed it. The problem seems to occurs when I type faster. Any comments would be welcomed

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