cursor jumps around while typing????

[Guest]

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

 

[DavidNorman]

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

This (driver?) has been "driving" me crazy also. I'm running Windows 7 on a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop, and I only use the touchpad. I don't use the keyboard "pointing stick", and I've never even had a mouse attached to this. I made two different changes before attempting to check my results, so I really don't know which one fixed the problem. I guess I'm not much good as a scientist. I should have checked results following each change. Anyway, the problem is gone. (1) I downloaded and reinstalled the currently available keyboard driver, and (2) I went into "control panel", "mouse", and I disabled the "pointing stick". Now the cursor stays with me regardless of typing speed. I typed a test document in Word, I typed a long email note, and now typing this I have no problems.

 

[DocRocks]

I'm running Win10 on a Lenovo Ideapad but using a wireless mouse/keyboard so I don't have the touchpad problem as others do. But ..... I installed Touchfreeze and voila, it seems to have solved the problem, at least for the last 10 minutes!! Many thanks to the original contributor who suggested it.

 

[Rene_1]

I had the worsT experience with my PC - I could not type anything without the cursor jumping everywhere - I was so frustrated after 3 technicians tried in vain to fix it.
I took my PC to best buy and was ready to leave it there until they fix it.
The tech put my PC on the counter and said: "let's try first to clean the screen"
He did and IT WAS FIXED
I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT

 

[singhrohit]

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!!

Mate, your solution is bloody [adjectives removed] ]awesome. Touchfreeze sort of saved my sanity.. Thank you!!

 

[Arline]

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

I have a Toshiba desk top and it did same thing This worked for me
click on open spot in task bar click properties
, Click start menu then customize .
go down list and UNCHECK open submenus that should take care of it

 

[Bayousara]

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

I have tried every single idea....but here is what I did tonight, not sure if it will work for you.

Control Panel--mouse--buttons--button configurations--click on "switch primary and secondary buttons."

Select that check box to make the button on the right of your mouse the one you use for primary functions such as selecting and dragging.

You will have to get used to not using the left button for selecting and dragging, if that is what you use now. If you use left, you get other commands.

Be sure to select "apply" and "close"

Please post if you try this and it works. I am hoping I have the million dollar answer (or, maybe someone else has already tried this).

 

[hang-the-9]

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!

So here is the issue with this "you know you did not touch the pad while typing", that software disables the touchpad while you type. Meaning that if it fixed it for you, you were touching it, but since that program disabled it, it did nothing when you did. The issue in 99% of cases with the cursor moving "on it's own" is people hitting the touchpad while using the computer. The other 1% are actual hardware issues where the touchpad or trackpoing hardware loses tracking and floats the mouse around the screen.

 

[hang-the-9]

I had the worsT experience with my PC - I could not type anything without the cursor jumping everywhere - I was so frustrated after 3 technicians tried in vain to fix it.
I took my PC to best buy and was ready to leave it there until they fix it.
The tech put my PC on the counter and said: "let's try first to clean the screen"
He did and IT WAS FIXED
I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT

Do you have a touchscreen?

 

[karen_jay]

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

 

[Larry_32]

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

 

[karen_jay]

I ended up taking my laptop to the Geek Squad at Best Buy, where I have an account. Don't know what they did, but they fixed it for me. Thanks for your help!

 

[Polly_]

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!!

THANKYOU THIS HAS SAVED MY SANITY AND TOOK SECONDS TO DO!!!!!

 

[solohoh]

My erratic cursor was caused by a short circuit from a liquid spill. I replaced the keyboard ($10 & so easy to do) and saw the problem on the cable. Works fine now.

 

[emy12]

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!

I also had problem with the cursor, it was moving across the screen, I did everything i knew, i even did a clean install of win 8.1, but the same problem. I have D620
Finally i found this post and as said, i unchecked the hide pointer when typing, amazingly it worked for now.
Thanks

 

[Etta__]

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

My laptop cursor has been jumping around for months with Windows 10 that I installed last summer when Windows 10 just came out.

I discovered a fix....I cut some card stock, folded it in half and taped it over my touch pad. I have a Bamboo Fun pad with mouse and pen that I use all the time. But I noticed while typing my hands would touch the touch pad and the cursor would jump around. Frustrating to no end!! My cursor didn't jump around at all typing this.

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[Joyce_RD]

The reason is because you are touching or sweeping (accidentally) the touchpad mouse while you are typing. I solved the problem by turning off the touchpad mouse in the Control Panel. I now use a wireless mouse and haven't experienced cursor jumping since!

LJ

THE PROBLEM IS ALSO WITH MY ANDROID PHONE. SO, NOT ABOUT THE MOUSE TOUCH AT ALL!!!

AND I KNOW I DID NOT TOUCH MY MOUSE PAD!!!!

 

[Joyce_RD]

will try freeze software

 

[burrupaul]

i used to have that issue with one of my client Toshiba Portege Z30-A, and i manage to solve it by updating the BIOS and Chipest drivers.

 

[hypatia20AD]

Bless you my friend! It took me a second to fix something that was driving me insane.....I was ready to "dispose off" my Asus laptop.
THANK YOU!

http/www.softpedia.com/get/Windows-Widgets/System-Utilities/TouchFreeze.shtml

 

[Amanda_Shields]

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!!

Seriously!! THANK YOU!!!!!! I was ready to throw my ASUS laptop across the room for the billion times it would randomly open things or delete entire paragraphs of text I'd written! Lifesaver! Thank you!