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Cursor jumps around

By kateg303 on Aug 14, 2008

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My cursor jumps all over the place for no reason - if my palms are resting on either side of the cursor pad, it triggers a jump - also if the cursor is on the window in which I'm typing it jumps to where the cursor is. I have to scoot the cursor off screen in order to type, although this doesn't always solve the problem. I can't type a sentence w/o it jumping - anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this? thanx! I have just bought an Aspire7720G laptop and have the same cursor jumping problem - just installed the 'touchfreeze' software as suggested and it seems (fingers crossed) to have solved the problem. Excellent!! It has been driving me insane!! Many thanks for the help :)

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Best Solution

posted on Aug 30, 2008

desdimona

Rank: Apprentice
Rating: 93%, 6 votes

Hi,
I was having the same problem and what I did after doing some research was to roll back the driver that was installed to an earlier version (control panel/device manager/mouse/synaptics touchpad/driver/driver rollback) once that was done under control panel/mouse/device settings/settings i was finally able to adjust the sensitivity settings. This finally fixed the problem for me, I hope it helps you because it is a very frustrating problem.

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Solution #2

posted on Aug 14, 2008

harry1987

Rank: Master
Rating: 83%, 31 votes

If your cursor moves erratically on the screen (for example, if it jumps around the screen, moves at varying speeds, or selects items on its own), perform the following steps:

Clean the surface of the touchpad with a dry, soft cloth to remove grease, sweat, moisture, or other liquids.
Adjust the sensitivity of the touch pad:.
1. Click the Start button and click Control Panel.
2. Click Printers and Other Hardware.
3. Click Mouse.
4. When the Mouse Properties window appears, click the Pointer Options tab. (Figure 1)
  
  Figure 1: Pointer Speed
5. Under Select a pointer speed:, click to move the slider bar closer to Slow.
6. Click OK.
7. Check to see if the touch pad still behaves erratically.
If the touchpad still caused the cursor to behave erratically, attach an external mouse to your computer and restart your computer. Use the external mouse to see if your cursor still moves erratically.

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Comment by Guest, posted on Dec 14, 2008

I have a different Medion laptop but have the same problem. I'm now happy with the touchfreeze solution of performing fn-f3 when I want to enter text. All I want it the option to disable touch to click is that too much to ask of the driver?

Comment by a-nibert, posted on Oct 30, 2008

Did ya'll think we had an earth quake? Nope! It was just me rantin' and ravin' about this crazy cursor JuMpIn'.....I do not look at the keys or screen while typing...I look only at the document.....The anger and frustration I feel when I finish to only see Jibberish....Please HELP!

Comment by Guest, posted on Sep 08, 2008

mouse cursor jumps when typing. I have no option tp disable touchpad

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