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Posted by Galen on November 13, 2006, 9:00 am
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Prisoner at War had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> Hi, anyone else with this issue?
>
> Every now and then the Synaptics touchpad becomes "wildly off the
> mark"...I'd move it a little but the pointer goes way across the
> screen! Worse, it doesn't simply land in a regular manner such that I
> can recalibrate my own behavior in response to the sudden change in
> its behavior. No, I'd touch the pad again, and the pointer would
> "shiver" as if unsure whether I'd touched it, moved it, or which
> direction it's supposed to go, and how far...this weird business
> usually happens with the hard drive on a constant, steady whirl in
> the background, even though Task Manager reports only 2% of the CPU
> (early last year's 1.6 Mobile Pentium, though I have 1GB of RAM).
>
> Basically, the touchpad behaves erratically, almost epileptically,
> like it's spazzin' out...this lasts for a few minutes, and then it's
> okay again....
Try adjusting sensitivity, hardware acceleration, and speed. No known exact
science for it. *grins* Sometimes they wander about of their own volition
and become nomadic pointing devices. Usually just slowing things down a bit
takes care of it.
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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
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"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward." - Sherlock Holmes
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