Re: Windows XP typing automatically

"Zak Nickotel" <zaknickotel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Elmo wrote...

Look in the Control Panel to see if there's a touchpad control that
might let you disable it, or use the Device Manager to open Properties
for the touchpad, and under "Device Usage", change to "Do not use this
device (disable)".

I had a look last night. I can't find any reference to the touch pad in
Device
Manager or in Control Panel.

I thought that there used to be a Dell utility that loaded which
controlled such
things. But for some reason it's not currently running or installed on the
machine.

Anyway, I played with it last night to see if I could reproduce the cursor
moving around the page. In fact, when it started doing it to me I was
typing a
message in Agent (as I'm doing now). The cursor suddenly jumped from the
text
editor field into the "From" field where my username and email address is
and I
was overtyping that before I realised that it had occured.

Now, the only way to get the cursor up there is to move the mouse pointer
to
that field and click in it.

So, maybe somehow the palm of my hand is resting on the pad as I type and
then
the button on the pad is pressed or something.

Whatever, it's been difficult to reproduce. I placed pressure on various
parts
of the laptop where my hands rest. But nothing, so far.


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Reboot and go into BIOS settings. You can disable the touchpad there if you
don't wish to use it.

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