Thanks in advance to the person who already wrote in with a problem 
similar to my own; I have felt free to use some of his/her wording.

I have a Dell Inspiron, running VISTA, and have difficulty with the 
cursor moving to different areas of the document as I type, whether in 
my e-mail program or in a Word document. It jumps around all over, 
sometimes deleting what I just wrote.

It has been suggested that I am accidentally touching the touchpad as I 
type, so I have been careful to make sure that this is not happening.  
But the problem persists. I am constantly having to cut and paste to 
make a coherent document.  

A suggestion from PC Build:

"If you go into the Control Panel/Computer Management/Device Manager/Mice and

other devices and click on whatever your touchpad is named, go into Advanced

Properties and set the sampling rate slower that what it is now. I've got a

HP Pavilion running XP Home with a Synaptic touchpad that the sampling rate

is set to 100. I speak from experience here, since my touchpad did the exact

same thing when I first got it." 


That sounded great. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have any Advanced Properties, nor can I find anything called a Sampling Rate, when I go 
to Control Panel/Device Manager/Mice/DellTouchpad. 

Any suggestions for dealing with my bouncing cursor would be very gratefully accepted. 

Thank you,

Erif Thunen.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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