Little arrow jumping around

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• stevensdrs Posts: 1,705

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  26/06/11 - 10:31 #2

  Is it a laptop with a touchpad or a pc with a mouse?

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• JulesandSand Posts: 6,012

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  26/06/11 - 11:11 #3

  Are you brushing the touchpad, if you have one, with your hand as you type?
  
  If you are running Windows then under 'Mouse' in control panel you should be able to select an option to hide the mouse cursor whilst typing.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 163

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  26/06/11 - 12:58 #4

  And if it's a laser mouse, check there's not something (a hair) between the laser and the surface.

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• Lillith Posts: 946

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  26/06/11 - 20:02 #5

  It's a laptop.I am very carefull not to stray from the keyboard when I type bit it still goes haywire.

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• jsmith99 Posts: 20,382

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  26/06/11 - 20:55 #6

  You could still be touching the touchpad with your wrist - it used to happen to me a lot until I saw a reply in this forum about the problem.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 26

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  26/06/11 - 21:00 #7

  I know the OP says not, but wrist brushing the trackpad is the usual answer.
  
  Some laptops have a button above the keyboard to disable the pad.

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• emptybox Posts: 13,917

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  26/06/11 - 21:26 #8

  It's not an Advent laptop is it?
  Seemingly some of them had a known problem with the cursor jumping around.
  
  A friend of mine bought one from Currys that did that, and they took it back and got a different brand as replacement.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,232

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  26/06/11 - 21:27 #9

  I think this must be a common problem with laptops/netbooks as i've experienced it with3 of these

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• Stig Posts: 12,446

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  26/06/11 - 22:30 #10

  It's a common problem. This little program fixed the problem for me: TouchFreeze

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