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Ghost Mouse

  • 17-03-2010 11:20pm
    #1
    Pembily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,404 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi my mouse has a mind of its own!!! I had to delete a synaptics point thing as it was freezing my firewall, was told if I really needed it it would reinstall!!!

    It hasn't and my mouse while typing will hop all over the place, I touch type so not always looking at the screen as I may (like now) watch TV while typing and it just goes whereever it wants and is driving me nuts as I have a 15000 word Thesis to do on it!!!!!!!!!! Its a laptop and I do not touch the touch pad while typing!

    How do I fix this!Help please!!


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  • #2
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,260 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Happens me all the time on some laptops. the touch area is quite sensitive and always sends my cursor everywhere. Its a pain in the ass. Maybe use an external mouse and disasble the touchpad?


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,623 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    sometimes optical mice drift if not on a good surface


    and sometimes optical mice are become possessed and do mad things


  • #4
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,235 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Most laptops have the option to Disable the trackpad. Its the ONLY way to get any typing done. Your palms always, always, hit it. Hence the function to disable the pad. In many cases its a button on the pad itself (like on HP laptops)

    What really, really gets it riled up though, is tap to click. Its a horrible feature. Why everyone uses it I do. not. know. But disable it in your synaptics driver. Yes you now have to use the Left-click button like a NORMAL PERSON (im ranting at Society as a whole here) but you wont cause the typing cursor to reposition itself halfway up the page while youre in mid sentence.

    Trust me on this one. Its the fix I issue most often and damned if I should start charging for it, the way firends and family come calling to me, thinking theyve downloaded a virus. No Barbara - Its your fcuking trackpad :) case dismissed.


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