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Posted by BillW50 on March 3, 2008, 7:39 am
Please log in for more thread options Barry Watzman typed on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:10:53 -0500:
> There is an option in the control panel for the pointing device
> (mouse) to hide the cursor while typing, try that. Also check all of
> the settings for the "mouse". You may be accidentally hitting the
> mouse pad while you type, and reducing the pad sensitivity may help.
> In an extreme case, you can disable the mouse pad. There is a very
> slim chance that the pad is bad, much more likely that your settings
> are not working for you.
>
> Can't figure it out wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have this Toshiba laptop (not sure what model number it is but here
>> is what is written on the bottom: satellite#: M35X-S329, P/N:
>> PSA72U-00V00U). At any rate, I bought this for my wife a couple of
>> years ago for her schooling and I use it now during my job travels. I
>> am at the point of throwing this thing in the trash can as I cannot
>> tolerate the following problem: Whenever I type an email or message
>> such as this, the cursor automatically (and completely randomly) will
>> reposition itself to a different place within my text message or will
>> just plainly open another new email message as if I enabled a hotkey
>> or similiar action. This eats up much time correcting and
>> re-entering data which will ultimately send this device to an early
>> grave launched from the Huey P Long bridge. Is this a software
>> function that I can turn off "HOT" keys or "suggestive" typing?
>> Please help (and hurry!). I reviewed all other symptoms online and
>> mine appears to be a first. I'm sure that I already wasted a half
>> hour typing this simple plea. Thanks in advance.
You didn't mention if this laptop has a touchpad. If it does, many of
them has an option "tap to click". If it is turned on, you can have this
problem. Mine option is found by right clicking on the mouse driver in
the System Tray. I can't find any other way to toggle this feature on my
setup.
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Bill
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