Annoying keyboard problem

[groucho]

Whenever I am typing in the cursor keeps jumping for no apparent reason to somewhere in the sentence that I have already written, and before I've noticed I have half a sentence where it shouldn't be.

It's doing it all the time and it is getting impossible to type.

[The Riddler]

Are you usptop or a desktop? ing a la

[groucho]

Eh? A laptop.

[esselte]

The Riddler said:

Are you usptop or a desktop? ing a la

I saw what you did there..

[The Riddler]

Try moving the cursor away from where your typing, my touch pad can be quite sensitive so often 'jumps' the cursor back the where i left it.

esselte said:

The Riddler said:

Are you usptop or a desktop? ing a la

I saw what you did there..

Edited by The Riddler on Wednesday 14th October 20:30

[The Highway Man]

Very clever

[groucho]

The Riddler said:

Try moving the cursor away from where your typing, my touch pad can be quite sensitive so often 'jumps' the cursor back the where i left it.

esselte said:

The Riddler said:

Are you usptop or a desktop? ing a la

I saw what you did there..

Edited by The Riddler on Wednesday 14th October 20:30

It's not that, I'm using a mouse. It can jump several lines up.

[esselte]

groucho said:

The Riddler said:

Try moving the cursor away from where your typing, my touch pad can be quite sensitive so often 'jumps' the cursor back the where i left it.

esselte said:

The Riddler said:

Are you usptop or a desktop? ing a la

I saw what you did there..

Edited by The Riddler on Wednesday 14th October 20:30

It's not that, I'm using a mouse. It can jump several lines up.

Faulty/dirty mouse?

[51mes]

Have you disabled the tap to click function on the touchpad..

this is the normal cause of the problem, the touchpad driver in control panel/printers and other hardware/mouse will be capable of disabling this..


Simes

[Mrs Trackside]

groucho said:

The Riddler said:

Try moving the cursor away from where your typing, my touch pad can be quite sensitive so often 'jumps' the cursor back the where i left it.

esselte said:

The Riddler said:

Are you usptop or a desktop? ing a la

I saw what you did there..

Edited by The Riddler on Wednesday 14th October 20:30

It's not that, I'm using a mouse. It can jump several lines up.

Mine does the same. I'm using Vista on a Compaq with a mouse and my touchpad is completely disabled.

[groucho]

I'm not sure that is the cause of the problem as I am not touching the touchpad. It has just done it, I was watching it and for no reason the cursor jumped to another part of the sentence.

[The Highway Man]

If it's an optical mouse, all of mine jump for no reason!!

[groucho]

No, it's USB one. Has anybody got an answer, it's driving me cuckoo. I Can't write sentence without the cursor bouncing all over the shop. This time the computer submitted the post on its own, hence the edit.

Edited by groucho on Thursday 15th October 17:31

[J_S_G]

groucho said:

No, it's USB one. Has anybody got an answer, it's driving me cuckoo. I Can't write sentence without the cursor bouncing all over the shop. This time the computer submitted the post on its own, hence the edit.

Edited by groucho on Thursday 15th October 17:31

1. Does it happen when you're not touching the mouse/keyboard?

2. Try unplugging the mouse and just using the trackpad for a bit. Does it still happen then?


This is quite often a bad power supply related issue... minor spikes causing the cheap electronics in the mouse to register a signal, etc. A ferrite ring around the USB cable will often fix it - most expensive mice have these in them already (bulky bit about 1" up from the USB connector on the cable)

[groucho]

Cheers, I'll give it a go.

[TooLateForAName]

groucho said:

No, it's USB one. Has anybody got an answer, it's driving me cuckoo. I Can't write sentence without the cursor bouncing all over the shop. This time the computer submitted the post on its own, hence the edit.

Edited by groucho on Thursday 15th October 17:31

usb doesnt mean it isnt optical. Does your mouse have balls or does it shine a little light?

What sort of surface is is on and does it sit flat on the surface?

[groucho]

TooLateForAName said:

groucho said:

No, it's USB one. Has anybody got an answer, it's driving me cuckoo. I Can't write sentence without the cursor bouncing all over the shop. This time the computer submitted the post on its own, hence the edit.

Edited by groucho on Thursday 15th October 17:31

usb doesnt mean it isnt optical. Does your mouse have balls or does it shine a little light?

What sort of surface is is on and does it sit flat on the surface?

OK, it shines a red light. It is on a mouse mat. Only just started to happen.

[P924]

Try cleaning it.

Make sure the mouse mat doesn't have a picture on it. If you put the sensor at the join of two seperate colours it can be erratic

[groucho]

Too late, it started with another problem so I lost my temper and punched the screen. I am now on a new laptop.

[Mrs Trackside]

groucho said:

Too late, it started with another problem so I lost my temper and punched the screen. I am now on a new laptop.

That's one way of fixing the problem