Windows 7: Prevent CURSOR JUMPING by Disabling Touchpad on Your Laptop
09 Jan 2012
JTSDenver
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
1 posts
Prevent CURSOR JUMPING by Disabling Touchpad on Your Laptop
Curse of the Jumping Cursor
Greetings to all who have been suffering from this insane malady. I have brand-new (Sept. 2011) DELL Inspirion N4110 laptop running Windows 7 & a Dynex wireless mouse. Disabling the Touchpad fixed it. Here's a mini Troubleshooting Guide for any who may wish to use it:
Disabling the Touchpad to Prevent Leaping & Jumping Erratic Cursor when using an external USB wireless mouse
Click the round 4-quartered Windows Start icon in the lower left menu bar. Click Devices and Printers in the menu list. RIGHT-Click your PC icon in the dialog box. Click Mouse Settings. The Mouse Properties dialog box displays. Click the Dell Touchpad tab. Click the Touchpad icon. The Dell Touchpad dialog box displays. Click Device Select Under the Touchpad option, select Disable. (Items under theTouchpad Buttons option will no longer be available.) Check the box that reads: Disable Touchpad/Pointing Stick when external USB mouse is present. Click the Apply button. The amber light above your Touchpad and below your spacebar on your keyboard will glow. Click OK.
NOTE: Whenever you restart your computer, it will take a while for the Touchpad to deactivate. Wait until the amber light above your Touchpad glows before you start typing again.
More Important Note: If you shut down your computer and then reboot after a long rest, it will seemingly “forget” to turn off the Touchpad. So, if you “pretend” that you’re going to turn off the Touchpad again using the above directions, it will miraculously “remember” to turn it off spontaneously and the amber light will glow. Then you’ll be able to type normally again without being tortured by an erratically leaping cursor that jumps around and randomly inserts text or highlights & deletes whole paragraphs for no apparent reason.
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01 May 2012
ICit2lol
Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 7 Home Prem / Laptop 7 Pro all 64bit
6,532 posts
Hiyya JTS I am setting up a friends new HP laptop and for those with the same brand you need to go to your set up > Mouse Properties > Touch pad settings > you only need to click the tick box marked Disable internal pointing device.
I set the click and travel speed in Control Panel before going here
The Click Pad disable is not needed it auto greys out just leaves you with Click Pad Profiles which you don't need
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01 May 2012
boohbah
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
12,170 posts
cornwall UK
sometimes it can be a simple Fn and f key press to disable the trackpad, other models have a individual key for this purpose.
on the wifes lenovo laptop its Fn and F8
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01 May 2012
ICit2lol
Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 7 Home Prem / Laptop 7 Pro all 64bit
6,532 posts
Quote: Originally Posted by boohbah
sometimes it can be a simple Fn and f key press to disable the trackpad, other models have a individual key for this purpose.
on the wifes lenovo laptop its Fn and F8
Thanks BB I'll keep that in the old brain box for future reference
System Manufacturer/Model Number Hewlett packard/p6512uk OS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600 CPU IIx4 amd athelon 635 processor Motherboard FOXCONN 2AA9 Memory 2x2gb Graphics Card ati radeon HD 5450 Sound Card (1) Realtek High Definition Audio (2) AMD High Definition Monitor(s) Displays samsung lcd tv 32" Screen Resolution 1360x 768
Keyboard wireless hp Mouse wireless Hp,optical PSU ? Cooling air! Hard Drives (1) WDC WD10 01FAES-60Z2A0 SATA Disk Device (2) Maxtor OneTouch USB Device (3) ST310003 33AS USB Device (4) WD My Book 1111 USB Device Internet Speed 1.10mb/s Antivirus MSE Browser Firefox
05 May 2012
GR4
windowa xp 32
1 posts
The touch pad on the sony Vaio v505 that I inherited had the same problem with erratic jumping. Static discharge is the problem from a design flaw.....I fixed the touchpad by dissassembling the computer and removing the touchpad assembly. I placed electrical tape on the underside of the top where the touchpad mounts. to the top. I trimmed the tape with a razor blade from around the opening and reinstalled the touchpad assembly. It has worked perfectly since the modification. Please post this fix. It seems there are many people with this problem.