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Out of control cursor!! Help!

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NorbertDentressangle · 17/08/2013 20:58

This keeps happening...all going well and then, seemingly for no reason, I lose control of the cursor.

If I try and move it to click on something it will suddenly shoot off past what I'm trying to click on. Its so frustrating. no matter how slowly or carefully I try and move it to hover over a link for example it just overshoots.

Its as if it knows what I want to click on but deliberately won't let me meaning I spend ages trying to coax it to the right place whilst getting increasingly frustrated



(using a laptop with touchpad BTW)

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WafflyVersatile · 17/08/2013 21:02

I get the same thing. Drives me mad. Then it'll be all right again as suddenly as it started.

Sorry, this is no help, but yahknow, solidarity fist bump.

NorbertDentressangle · 17/08/2013 21:11

Its infuriating isn't it Waffly? Have you noticed any pattern in when it happens?

(this is an Akoya laptop -whats yours?)

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DwellsUndertheSink · 17/08/2013 21:13

if you have a touchpad mouse, try installing touchfreeze.

NorbertDentressangle · 17/08/2013 21:20

Dwells, its not when I'm typing (although from searching on here it seems that its a common a problem for the cursor to move elsewhere mid-typing).

This is when I'm just browsing websites eg. if I'm on MN Active Convos list and see a thread I want to read , when I try and move the cursor to click on it to open it the cursor will fly past the thread title making it impossible to click on it

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WafflyVersatile · 18/08/2013 00:10

touchfreeze you say?

it is a touchpad.

The cursor does sometimes move insertion point when I'm typing. I've assumed it's my wrists activating the touchpad.

WafflyVersatile · 18/08/2013 00:12

ah, that only helps with the typing. I might give it a go tomorrow all the same.

NorbertDentressangle · 18/08/2013 09:38

I occasionally find the cursor moves when typing (even at work on a PC with proper keyboard and mouse etc) but its nowhere near as annoying as the 'out of control cursor' that won't go where you want it.

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Manda472 · 18/08/2013 09:41

Don't know if this will help but this happens to me when one if the dc have been using it with sticky fingers Angry I find if I clean and dry it completely its fine again

NorbertDentressangle · 18/08/2013 16:29

Not the DC (this time !) as they don't use this laptop but thanks for suggestion.

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