Cursor jumping around

Has anyone else experienced this? You're typing and suddenly the cursor jumps to another position, usually a few lines above and all of a sudden you're typing in between lines you've already written.

Someone told me it has to do with my Logitech mouse and XP's generic drivers, but I just updated them with Logitechs own and it still happens. It's definitely not me touching the touchpad while typing as someone else suggested - I don't touch it and besides that wouldn't move the cursor.

 

I've seen that before and honestly, I don't know if there's a solution. It's probably just a buggy driver or its interaction with your machine. How often does it happen?

 

Could be that the palm of your hand is touching the touch pad as you type. Try covering the touchpad with something like a credit card and see if it helps.

 

It happens very often. I really don't think it's the touchpad, since that moves the mouse pointer around and not the text cursor. And the position of my hands when I type means I don't really ever touch the touchpad.

Someone told me it was because I was using a Logitech optical mouse with XP's generic mouse driver, and suggested I install the proper Logitech ones. No luck, it still happens. I did find some mention of it in relation to Logitech mice though.

 

My 3270 did that on occasion under Windows, but it does it all the time under Linux. I think it is related to the touchpad...if I disable the touchpad, it stops happening.

 

Well, let's try the easy things first. Remove the Logitech mouse and see if the problem goes away.

 

You can disable the touch pad and your wandering curser problem will go away.
Here's how to disable it:
1. go to control panel
2. click on mouse icon
3. go to the device settings tab and disable the touchpad.
It worked for me and now I don't have the wondering curser problem.
-Andrew

 

under the mouse pad settings you can check a box to HIDE the curser while typing .. when finished typing just touch the pad ..also you can check box that = hit ctrl and the curser will return ...

 

My Dell Inspiron 600m with XP home has two mouse hardware listings. One called HID compliant mouse which appears to be my Dell external optical mouse and the other is called PS/2 compatible mouse. I can disable the HID compliant (external) mouse but I can't find anywhere in the Mouse control panel where to disable the (presumed internal) mouse pad.

 

Never mind. I rebooted my Dell using the F2 key for setup. Then Alt-P until I found the mouse toggle. There I switched to "Serial" for my USB only mouse and saved.

Finally the cursed mouse pad is turned OFF.

 

I too have a PS/1 compliant mouse or something listed along with the USB mouse. I have no idea what it means.

Funny thing is, since I installed my Logitech mouse drivers, I no longer have any touchpad options anywhere. The Logitech software basically took over the whole "mouse" options.

 

I have the same problem with my cursor. I'm using a 2 year old SONY Vaio notebook running XP. No matter which app I am using I can be typing when the cursor will switch up to a previous place inserting the text I am typing. very frustrating to say the least! It makes me want to avoid the SONY and use my Dell PC which has it's own unique problems as well. They all have one problem or another!!
I have carefully watched and my hand is not near the touchpad and it happens with or without my usb MOUSE plugged in.

If anyone can help me I will foreber be in debted to you.

Thanks Peter my email is [email protected]

 

I'm so glad to hear others are having the same problem - this is driving me crazy. I didn't have this problem with my Thinkpad 40, but my 2 month old Averatec, which I love, is often rendered useless because of this stupid cursor. I've uninstalled the optical mouse - still the same problem, in all applications, different times, jumping erratic lines/spaces. I've tried a USB mouse, I've tried w/out any mouse - all to no avail. I agree - it s NOT accidental touching of the pad...PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!! (I take it this isn't an AVERATEC isolated problem? I'm about to throw my notebook out the window!)

 

Averatec repair finally replaced the motherboard and toudhpad on my 1020. The cursor is very stable now. All functions are there as far as if know.

Still would stay far away from this brand. too many issues.

susan

 

hate to bump an old thread but my sisters laptop does the same exact thing, and I tried everything and NOTHING fixes it, its a dell e1505, and she is not touching the touch pad by accident. has anyone found a solution other then having the internal parts replaced?

 

Ahem....

If your cursor is randomly jumping :
(especially if you are using an optical mouse)
- Look at your mouse pad
--- Does it have the color red on it?
------ RED will cause the optical mouse to have inaccurate reading, which will cause the "jumps"
------ RED is the standard spectrum for most optical mouses.
- Go use something else as mousepad WITHOUT red on it.

Its is extremely improbable that a touchpad would cause this problem.

-Gophn

 

this is a mousepad setting.

I recently revisited this problem when i switched to vista and i used the microsoft touchpad drivers.

Find the drivers from the manufacturer of your touchpad and likely they will have the settings correct so a small brush doesnt change your cursor position.

Do you have a clean install of your os? Thats likely the problem

 

not sure if this will help you, but this fixed my problems with touchpad jumping.

http://www.download.com/TouchFreeze/3000-2094_4-10395987.html

 

TouchFreeze is no longer at that link. I found it here:

http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/downloads/list

This download solved it for me on two notebooks.

Hope that helps.

What it does is disable the touchpad while you are typing. I type at about 200 wpm and this was driving me crazy until I found Touchfreeze. Soon as you quit tapping keys, the touchpad works fine.

Best,
kwc

 

The TouchFreeze utility also worked for me. I had the same problem described in thread - cursor randomly jumping while typing. While several people have mentioned they do not think it is a touchpad problem because they are not "touching" the pad while typing, I recommend trying this utility anyway -- it definitely fixed the problem for me, and I didn't think I was brushing or touching my touchpad either. I forwarded it to a friend who has had the same problem for 6+ months, it also fixed it for him. He runs Ubuntu and had to make a few changes to utility, but it worked.

Thanks kwc for TouchFreeze link:
http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/downloads/list

 

200 WPM? Yikes, that's fast.

I had the same jumping cursor problem using an optical mouse. Changing the mouse pad worked for me. Thanks Gophn.

 

CURSOR JUMPING AROUND WHILE TYPING FIXED!
I just got a new acer laptop, my first laptop, and was just about ready to return it to the store because while I was typing I would find I had suddenly jumped up several lines and was now tying in the middle of some other previously typed word! Another problem was it seemed my cursor sometimes flew around and opened things like it was possesed. Once, I was not even touching the computer but was holding my hand above it looking for a key and I swear, I think it read it in the air or something, because my mouse flew across the page. At any rate, it is now working perfectly, here's what I did. I opened my mouse options, and there were quite a few tabs, I opened all of them and whenever I saw a speed slide, I changed it to read about 1/3 instead of 1/2 (in the middle) of the speed. I can't tell any difference. But, I think the speed can affect things, like if you are on a bicycle and miscalculate a turn by an inch, no problem, but if you are piloting a plane and miscalculate a turn by an inch, while going 500 mi an hour, you'll end up in another country! Anyway, I also clicked the box DISABLE TAPPING WHILE TYPING. My laptop is now behaving perfectly and I hope this helps someone!

 

Thanks a lot for the tip, now my computer works perfectly!
I was about to bring it back to the store it was so annoying.
Thanks!

 

I was having cursor-jumping problems with an Acer ASpire 3680 running Ubuntu. Problems were not evident with Vista.

I prefer using a mouse to the touchepad. That created my problem, I believe. My hands were brushing the touchepad, which is more sensitive in Ubuntu than Linux. I discoverd that on my F7 key is an icon representing a finger on pad. I used Function-F7 and it disabled my mousepad entirely, and now the jumping cursor has stopped entirely.

 

My problem is not a jumping cursor/mouse mine stays put but when writing/typing an email, or in word, or in anything where I am typing more than a few words suddenly even thought the cursor has NOT moved my typing stops I have to re click where I am and 18 seconds later it happens again, over and over I am guessing it's pretty steady on or near the 20 second mark. On some things it will not happen, like here I have yet to loose my ability to keep typing, but yahoo or microsoft word and many other venues this happens. I have tried to isolate when and where, there seems to be no rhyme or reason here.

[email protected]

 

This worked for me on XP and Vista..
Thanks a million..

 

http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/downloads/list

THIS WAS driving me crazy but it appears this download fixed it.
Thanks so much I was about to throw the computer out the window!

 

Thanks, guys! You really saved it for me with that advice about TouchFreeze!

 

I have experienced this with a half dozen or so different laptops. Basically, I believe that this is due to the technology underlying the touchpad - electrical capacitance. You don't have to actually touch the pad for the proximity of your hand to be sensed, so there is some slop inherent in touchpads. I *always* disable it and use a different pointer method.

 

Cursor jumps around in Averatec 1020 or 1050, actually is a bug in design of motherboard.
They fix it by simply remove a resistor, then add a jumper. It takes only 1 minute to do it, but the motherboard has to take out to do the fix. A skilled technician can fix this problem without replacing motherboard. The one that doesn't know how to rework will simply replace the motherboard.

 

Looking at these reviews, Touch Freeze should be a good solution.

Alternatively, installing the compatible, system supported touchpad drivers will also address the issue. In my case, installing the synaptics touchpad drivers resolved the problem.

 

In my case it was the charger / Ac adapter that was causing the problem.

 

Very possible. Many inexpensive DC to AC power inverters put out an AC signal that is closer to a square wave than a sine wave. My AC adapter's switching circuits to convert AC to DC don't like it. Everything seems to be running fine except the cursor is near impossible to control.

A bad adapter could do the same thing.

 

yes, I notice this problem too
1) on my Averatec 1020-ED2 while in a text / email program, the text cursor jumps, messing up the text. Touchpad operational, no external mover.
2) on my Asus desktop while in a text program the cursor jumps, less often than on averatec. Logitech trackball only used device.

 

SAME PROBLEM WITH MY E1505 AFTER RELOADING XP DUE VIRUS. WENT
TO DELL SUPPORT AND REINSTALLED THE INPUT DRIVER FOR THE TOUCHPAD.

 

The TouchFreeze worked for me as well. Thanks for the solution. It was driving me crazy.

 

I had the same problem and tried some of the solutions listed and none worked. I use my touch pad and am sure I was not touching it while typing, and causing the problem. Then I found somewhere to download and install a Google program called "touchfreeze" . Just do a search and you will find the program. Problem gone! Hope this works for you...it seems like a miracle! I am definitely not a geek!

 

works perfectly

 

I have a SONY VAIO laptop that was experiencing the same cursor jumping while typing problem. To fix/stop this I went to:
CONTROL PANEL> MOUSE> POINTER OPTIONS and unchecked the SNAP TO option and the problem went away.

As to the person that loaded the update/new driver(s) from LOGITECH you can try rolloing your driver back, uninstalling the new/updated driver or try doing a SYSTEM RESTORE to a time back when your touchpad was working properly and then try the process above that worked for me.

 

Thank you soooooooooooooo much!!!! It worked!!!! Hallelujah!!!! I've been dealing with this issue for a year and I really wanted to destroy my Dell Latitude but now I don't have to throw it over my balcony!!!

 

I have been having the same problem, but I am running windows 7. I found a different forum where installing touchfreeze utility at

Downloads - touchfreeze - Project Hosting on Google Code

Dont know if it works or not yet but at least on this window no jumping.

 

It's June 2010, and I used TouchFreeze with Windows 7. It worked for me.

 

2011 and just discovered the thread. Touchfreeze appears to work for me too on Windows 7 64 bit. Such a relief!!

 

I had the same problem with my new computer and couldn't find any answers that helped except one that seemed a bit far fetched. Nothing else seemed to help so I decided to try that one. I laid a bit of cardboard over my touch pad and tried tryping in notepad...it worked! The cursor stopped hopping around and allowed me to type normal.

So I found an old greeting card, cut it to fit the touch pad and attached it with black electrical tape. It looks quite neat, still allows me to be able to use the touch pad if I ever need to, and solved the problem.

Of course this will only work for those using a mouse and not needing to use the touchpad on a regular basis. I use a wacom art tablet..the pen acts as my mouse.

 

Hi there

You may try this
click control pannel - then keyboard and in keyboard properties window set
repeat delay - 66%
repeat rate - 66%
cursor blink rate - 33%

that worked for me after many trials ......ending with blowing my keyboard with
pressurized air.
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