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To: Chickensoup
It is the sensativity of the touchpad, even though you may net be touching it. What you need is called Touchfreeze. It is a simple and safe utility and will work in both 32 and 64 bit environments. It disables the touchpad while you're typing. It is not an uncommon problem. This fixes you right up.
6 posted on 11/20/2012 3:48:43 PM PST by RobertClark (Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)
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To: RobertClark

Just downloaded it. Thank you.


18 posted on 11/20/2012 4:00:39 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist Totalitarian Fascism coming to a country like yours.)
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To: RobertClark

Very cool little utility. Thanks. Installed, tested it, works like a champ....and promptly sent that link to a some friends. :)


23 posted on 11/20/2012 4:13:51 PM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: RobertClark

Yeah, that is probably a smarter solution than going in and editing the registry to disable the touchpad completely, like I did :)


27 posted on 11/20/2012 4:53:50 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: RobertClark

Wow. That’s been driving me crazy. I was sure I was touching my touchpad.

See, I use the touchpad for mouse movements, but always disabled the “double-tap”, because I tend to drag quickly and it would select. I can hit the cursor buttons so I don’t need the touchpad to click.

Anyway, in Windows 7 I can’t find any way to control my touch pad anymore (I’d also like to speed it up). And I assumed that I was touching it and clicking, and that’s why it jumped.

It happened lots when I typed the letter “n”, which is when my thumb swings close to the touchpad.

Anyway, I put that touchfreeze on, and it actually I think installed (my work controls my computer and sometimes I can’t do things). It wasn’t obvious that it actually installed, it said it was installing, and then it was finished.

But I’ll admit I just typed this entire post and my cursor didn’t jump one time, and in the past two weeks anything over a paragraph would jump at least once.

So thanks to everybody who suggested touchfreeze. My work ITG group knew NOTHING about this.


32 posted on 11/20/2012 5:44:02 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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