The IT guys can’t do anything for me. They tell me to type better, but the cursor on THIS SINGLE NETBOOK jumps all over the place, and I need to correct the random typing only on this one netbook, not any other computer, and the random cursor is driving me nuts. (I’ve taken ten minutes to type out these few sentences.) Suggestions?
I get that when the battery in my wireless mouse is dying…
Someone else with a blue tooth device in the area. Great prank. Does it stop whenever the tech guys look at it?
an active touchpad can do things like that.
Are you talking about the mouse cursor? Because it sounds like you are talking about the typing cursor (or whatever it is called, the blinking vertical line) jumping around and making you type stuff in the wrong place. I occasionally have my mouse cursor randomly jump to a corner of the screen (as happens with optical mice, if not enough to be annoying), but it never changes the typing cursor location unless you click, but it isn’t a wireless mouse either which I suppose could do that if the receiver can’t properly read the data (probably no error correction used for such a simple thing).
Disable the touch pad, and use only a mouse or track ball.
The touch pad can pick up a static charge (especially when the Santa Ana winds are blowing!) and your entire computer will seem possessed.
~VOW
Or … dum dum dommm! It really is possessed!
You need an old IT guy and a young IT guy.
Your motherboard sucks clocks in hell!
The power of DOS compels you.
I used to have a mouse that would go haywire every now and then. I had to re-install the drivers for it on multiple occasions.
If you are talking about the typing cursor, are you sure you’re not bumping the touch pad?
If you’re using a Macbook, when the battery gets old and swells, just leaning on the keyboard with your wrists can make the cursor jump around.
It is probably your sleeve bushing the touchpad. You can disable the pad altogether, or just disable the tap-to-click function. The cursor may still move then, but it will not matter much if it is not registering clicks, and thus moving the insertion point too.