I love my netbook but it does weird things with the cursor. It just randomly jumps around the computer while I 'm trying to type. And it is annoying as hell to be typing and then look up and see your cursor has jumped to a previous sentence and you have to backspace and click back down to where you are typing. Or even weirder it will jump who knows where and if I push one of my arrow keys or backspace key BOOM! my browser jumps back a page and suddenly my entire email or whatever I am typing is gone! Set my email to always save draft while I’m typing but still it is annoying.
At first I thought "ok, it’s a relatively small kb so perhaps it’s just my palm or something possibly hitting my mouse pad and causing the cursor to jump but that is not it at all. Even when I’m very careful and absolutley positive it was nothing I did I will see the cursor just suddenly jump to a diffferent part of whatever page I’m on. This happens in any app I’m using.
I have the same experience - and same specs as it happens. I decided it WAS because I keep nudging the mousepad, but now I’ll keep an eye out to see if that’s it. No idea of any other possibilities, sorry.
Well I always thought it was an ID 10 t error as well but I’ve seen the cursor jump and I wasn’t even touching the computer. I’m going to try and play with the mouse settings some more but I have serious doubts that will fix it. Keep an eye out and you’ll see it. I can type pretty fast but I still have to look at the kb and I’m usually a pargraph into something before I notice I’ve been hijacked.
Are you absolutely SURE it’s not you inadvertently touching the touchpad? I know many, many people who face this problem (you’d think laptop makers would’ve dealt with it by now), and for them, TouchFreeze usually fixes it. Might be worth a try.
I’ve heard of problems like this from some of our students. One of them pointed out that if he rested his hands on the side of the touchpad, it would affect the cursor. That is, on the plate on the side, not on the mousepad at all. It’s as if the touchpad’s underlay is built under the plate where you’re supposed to rest your wrists.
Another one found that he couldn’t work in areas with high humidity - the touchpad mouse would basically go screwball and do it’s own thing.
I have this same problem (with a Dell laptop) and it makes me want to throw it out the window. I’ve tried TouchFreeze, and also decreasing my keypad sensitivity to almost nothing (which seemed to work for a bit, then not).
It only happens when I type fast. And I typically cannot re-create when I try to. I’m convinced there is some keypad thing going on, because when I am extra cautious to hit only the keys - and keep my palms up away from the keyboard - it does not happen, even when I type very rapidly.
Cripes, I even swapped in a brand new keyboard with no effect.
Maybe the heat from my palms is affecting the keypad (?)
By keypad you mean touchpad, right? (The flat little pad that you use as a mouse, as opposed to a numeric keypad on a big keyboard)
If so, have you tried disabling the touchpad altogether and seeing if the problem still occurs?
Also, when you said “swapped in a brand new keyboard”, I assume you meant you replaced the laptop keyboard with an identical model, not that you plugged in an external keyboard away from the touchpad?
My Acer Aspire One does this too. I’ve never tried to diagnose or fix it, assuming I was to blame in some way.
I never gave it too much thought, other than cursing it out when it does its thing. Thinking about it now, it shouldn’t be that sensitive if I brush it so lightly I don’t even realize I am doing it. I can see if I brushed it the cursor being nudged slightly, but it goes all over the place and it does do it when I’m not touching it.
I’ve got a desktop with fullsize keyboard and a usb optical mouse, many times the mouse pointer goes berzerker and flies about the screen. It can happen simply on the desktop, but it becomes much more noticeable during games. FO3 My character will suddenly look up at the sky and start spinning. Running win 7.
I have an Acer Aspire 5520 and the same problem occurs.
I was told by a computer tech that this is often caused by dust getting into the mousepad and sending signals as it rolls around. I have since bought a mouse and disabled the laptop’s mousepad. The problem completely stops when I do that. It comes back when I go back to using the laptop’s mousepad.
So yeah, Acer Aspire mousepads are so shitty you have to buy a separate mouse.
I’ve disabled it just now, before typing this response, and I’m typing very quickly and it seems to be working nicely (at least, for now).
I’m a-scared, though…sometimes my Bluetooth mouse quits working and needs to be re-installed; not sure how I’d accomplish that with no touchpad nor mouse (although I guess I could plug in a USB mouse, if needed (?).
And yes, I replaced the laptop keyboard (not plugged in an external).
This seems to be working well…maybe I’ll leave that sucker disabled. Thanks!
Hmm, I’m going to try the touch freeze and see how that goes. My company gave me a decent Dell laptop I’m mainly using but when I wander through the house or am at the library it’s nice to just grab the Acer. An external mouse really isn’t the answer because the only time I use it i’m sitting in a recliner or bed and don’t really want to find a level surface to place a mouse.
Call me crazy but I know I’ve seen the cursor jump when I wasn’t even touching the machine. Will see how well the touch freeze works. Thanks for all the responses. The link astro posted was dead but I googled the term he put in and came up with lots of hits and that helped a lot. When I first got the computer I installed Ubuntu and couldn’t get my wireless to work so I installed XP and the realized there is a switch on the front you have to turn on for the wireless adapter to work (duh). Seems to be a general consenus that this problem doesn’t occur in Ubuntu so I may just blow windows away and see how I like Ubuntu. Or even try a dual boot install.
Sometimes updated touchpad drivers can help, but not always.