cursor jumps around while typing????

[Guest]

How can you stop you cursor from jumping around????

 

[Anne Stephen]

Thank you beaker55, I am typing as we speak and the cursor is not jumping all over. I did upload touchfreeze. prayerfully I won't have these issues anymore.

This is the MOST frustrating thing...and it seems the longer it goes on, the worse it gets. I downloaded touchfreeze and it WORKED! So gleefully happy

 

[code48]

Will try TouchFreeze, but I've noticed cursor movement seems to happen after some system event (document save, refresh, unsure what it is). And when that happens, the cursor automatically jumps to wherever the mouse pointer is. So I can be typing a document (even in Notepad) and be several lines or 1+ paragraphs below the mouse pointer, when the system event occurs, the cursor jumps to the mouse pointer, and then the text I'm typing suddenly begins appearing several lines above where I was (but always wherever the mouse pointer was left).

 

[karengi]

Control panel>>hardware & sound>>Devices>>mouse>> pointer properties

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then what? nothing there for me to change and this is making me crazy
and i am not moving over the touchpad, what else should i do?

 

[coldincanada]

How can you stop you cursor from jumping around????

I downloaded something called touchfreeze 1.1.0 from Google. I'm not 5. I know I didn't touch the Pad while typing. Iit is software not a hardware problem tried all the other DUMB fixes. Typed for hours like a pro. took 10 sec to download. There is a reason it's called Google earth!

 

[shakurullah]

Very frustrating idiosyncrasy! I don't know if it's a Dell or a Microsoft issue and "Frankly my dear...." Anyway, I've tried every suggested solution from Microsoft, Dell, etc. Then found a freeware application called TouchFreeze ( http/code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/ ) It is the ONLY solution that worked for me. Takes all of 10 seconds, but it has completely eliminated the problem! Why couldn't MS or Dell have done that!!

thanks a lot man for you kind help.

 

[Hillier]

When I open Facebook and try to view a post message,iPad reverts back to start /icons page impossible to read or scroll to next message,how do I stop this??

 

[Envoguern]

I am happy, happy, happy this worked. Thank you soooooooo...much

 

[Joyful typing]

Very frustrating idiosyncrasy! I don't know if it's a Dell or a Microsoft issue and "Frankly my dear...." Anyway, I've tried every suggested solution from Microsoft, Dell, etc. Then found a freeware application called TouchFreeze ( http/code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/ ) It is the ONLY solution that worked for me. Takes all of 10 seconds, but it has completely eliminated the problem! Why couldn't MS or Dell have done that!!

 

[Joyful typing]

Wow my cup (or should that be beaker) is full and runneth over. Mega thanks for making available such a simple and quick solution to a problem that has been taking up hours of my time since my laptop had been in for repairs. I will be spreading the word

 

[jonas1975]

I have had enough of this jumping cursor issue. Frankly I'm so disappointed with the laptop industry. The cause of this jumping is that the touchpad or mouse pointer is independent of the keyboard cursor. Touchpad are useful because you do not have to carry a mouse around. And yes, when you touch or click the pad, the text cursor on your word processor or form should move where the pointer is.

If the mouse/touchpad pointer can be programmed to automatically follow the keyboard cursor when you are typing, then this problem of jumping cursor will go away. Come on guys, please debug the standard touchpad drivers already! So that poets and the rest of us can concentrate on typing words. Just thinking out loud. ---Jonas

 

[MoEP]

Me too! For about two years i've been frustrated by my Asus X53E's random cursor movements while typing. So bad I gave up using the keyboard at all. I just installed touchfreeze and it seems to do exactly what I wanted. (Pity it cna't improve my typing at the same time.) I still prefer using a full-size external keyboard but it's great to have the internal one working properly for occasional use.

Now if Icould just get the multi-finger scrolling on the touchpad to work properly...

 

[tddennin]

Me too! For about two years i've been frustrated by my Asus X53E's random cursor movements while typing. So bad I gave up using the keyboard at all. I just installed touchfreeze and it seems to do exactly what I wanted. (Pity it cna't improve my typing at the same time.) I still prefer using a full-size external keyboard but it's great to have the internal one working properly for occasional use.

Now if Icould just get the multi-finger scrolling on the touchpad to work properly...

 

[tddennin]

I just now realized my text jumping around problem. Took me nearly 4 mo to figure it out but not sure how to go about fixing it. This is what happened: I replaced the 750 harddrive in my Sony Vaio to a 1 TB drive. I then began having insanity producing text jumping. I went back to the computer store and they recommended change out the keyboard because there were a few sticky keys and they were convinced this was the problem even though I swore up and down that I did not have this text jumping prior to the change out of the hard drive despite a few sticky keys.

We then changed out the keyboard and still no change. So then the computer tech at the shop said to be careful to not touch the touchpad while typing so I did that and still no change. Now,here is the fix: I need to type with my fingers and wrists in the air without any part of my body touching the computer and then it works beautifully!!!! So there must be some interference produced when my wrists lie on the computer or possibly the weight on that part of the laptop. I think not the latter, however. I did note that one time I was wearing a bracelet with a large magnet clasp and that kept turning off the computer. So, wd like to know if anyone else has noted this phenomena. I have not turned off the touch pad but I am certain I am not touching the touch pad.

 

[chi-stan]

The solution posted earlier by ur6beersaway is incomplete.
To solve:
Go to: Start>Control Panel>Mouse>Pointer Options
Click: Pointer Options Tab
Un-Check: "Hide Pointer While Typing" check box.
Click: "Apply"
Click: "OK"
DONE!

 

[Gary S]

How can you stop you cursor from jumping around????

Press F1
It worked for me

 

[Allabarra]

I had this problem for years, then 3 months ago I unstalled Norton Antivirus. I did not connect the two, but the typing jumping around ceased to be a problem. Yesterday I re-installed Norton... and lo and behold... typing jumps around once again. Eugh !

 

[mschuller]

Solved jumping mouse cursor indirectly. I don't have a touchpad so I hesitated to use the Touch Freeze Utility until I at least tried some other solutions. I have a Sony touchscreen All-In-One computer. The mouse jumping had been going on for years. Recently, Microsoft's Pen & Touch Pad Component started popping up when I typed and when I tried to watch a movie or play a video and it was sticking its head out a little at the side of my screen. Also mouse had become overly sensitive. Tried some suggestions to get rid of Pen and Touch and tried one that didn't work for some, but did work for me. I opened Services, found Tablet PC Input Service, stopped it, used the little arrow to choose disable. Pen & Touch gone and best of all, so is the jumping mouse cursor. mschuller

 

[Bodyopus]

Very frustrating idiosyncrasy! I don't know if it's a Dell or a Microsoft issue and "Frankly my dear...." Anyway, I've tried every suggested solution from Microsoft, Dell, etc. Then found a freeware application called TouchFreeze ( http/code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/ ) It is the ONLY solution that worked for me. Takes all of 10 seconds, but it has completely eliminated the problem! Why couldn't MS or Dell have done that!!

WOW!! That actually fixed my cursor in 30 seconds!!!!! Nothing else worked!! THANKS SO MUCH!

 

[Bodyopus]

http/code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/ The SURE fix!!! Thanks breaker55

 

[Ronnie Dio]

As ur6beersaway said, control panel>hardware and sound>devices>mouse>pointerproperties>uncheck ´hide pointer when typing´. . It worked perfectly on my Dell Inspiron. Good luck!

This one Especially important that you pointed out that you must "uncheck" ´hide pointer when typing´