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    Touchpad sensitivity

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Ricecake, Jul 14, 2009.

  1. Ricecake

    Ricecake Newbie

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    Has anyone here had touchpad issues on their vaio laptops? There will be times when I'll be typing and the curssor just skips to a different place randomly which messes up the flow of the sentence that I'm typing. My fingers didn't even touch the touchpad and the cursor jumps.

    Maybe its the heat that is exerted from my hands but the fact remains that even though I don't touch the touchpad, the cursor will still move to a different place.

    Also, the model is a CS-390J.

    Please help.
     
    Ricecake, Jul 14, 2009
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  2. arth1

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    If the CS has an Alps touchpad like the Z, you can adjust down the sensitivity in the mouse preferences, "tapping" section.

    For your specific problem, you can also select "hide pointer while typing".
     
    arth1, Jul 14, 2009
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  3. AppleUsr

    AppleUsr Notebook Deity

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    there is a utility that fixes exactly what your problem is. it runs in the background and uses almost 0 resources. you dont even know its there. The utility is called touchfreeze.

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

    out of all the suggestions people have givin me and all the advice this was the one thing that truly fixed the problem.
     
    AppleUsr, Jul 15, 2009
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