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Old October 28th, 2009, 06:37 PM
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Cursor jumps backwards!!
I am looking at a friends laptop. An Acer Aspire 5315 with 2gig processor and 1 gig ram running on Vista Home Basic. When the owner types emails in hotmail and on Skype the cursor jumps backwards after a few words and lands somewhere in the middle or at the start of the sentence. Very strange, although it has not happened while typing this message out.

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Old October 28th, 2009, 08:24 PM
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is a wireless mouse used or is it the laptop mouse pad?
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Old November 3rd, 2009, 09:42 AM
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Sorry not sure, I am in Scotland until tomorrow. Will check tomorrow
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Old November 5th, 2009, 04:24 PM
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It's the laptop mouse pad.
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Old November 7th, 2009, 04:08 PM
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Any thoughts anyone - maybe mouse software reload or ?????
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Old November 8th, 2009, 02:14 AM
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Hi gooner. Maybe your friend is accidentally hitting the touchpad when he types? Some touchpad drivers have a Tap-to-Click feature and this causes similar issues. Have a look in Mouse Properties in Control Panel and see if there is a Touchpad tab. If so, disable it (the Tap-to-Click feature - it might also be found as described here). Failing that, a driver update might help or just disable the touchpad driver altogether and connect a USB mouse.
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Old November 8th, 2009, 05:07 PM
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I tried it myself and it happened. Will try updating the driver or a USB mouse like you say.Thanks. will let you know if it works.

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Ok. Good luck.
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Old November 10th, 2009, 04:43 PM
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I downloaded a new driver and touch wood it seems ok so far. Thanks Ann Marie.
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Great and you are very welcome.
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