WHAT is the deal!
Every time I try to post, I end up typing in the middle of a sentence in a different place in my posts and this is driving me MAD

My son explains that it has something to do with the 'heat sensitive' feature on the mouse pad. WHO invented this nightmare and what the heck is it supposed to accomplish. My son says it's a 'timed' thing or something.

There has to be a way to 'de-activate' this very helpful (not!) feature.

I try to keep the cursor so that it isn't 'on' something else that will automatically go there.

A very discombobulated,
Rae

I hope it's floating on its' back. Mine has done that on occasion..and it is disconcerting.

bump!!! And more bumps. (too short a message)

If you have an optical mouse, Alffe, the one with a little light on the bottom? Check for lint accumulations there in the little hole.

Little fine lint strands can reflect the light and may your mouse jitter around. I get this sometimes and use a tweezers to remove them. I have a cat pad with fake/faux fur next to my monitor for the cats to rest upon, and sometimes tiny link from that ends up in my mouse light window that is under the mouse.

Is this on a laptop?

you might be able to make some setting adjustments in the computers control panel.

Or check the manufacturers website for how to's.
Or google - adjusting laptop touchpad sensitivity *add brand name* then XP, Vista or whatever operating system you have.

My spare older laptop has some settings for the touchpad- but I use a mouse with it, so haven't explored it much. A mouse just is easier for me than the touchpad.

I'll look further into the control panel settings and the website idea is a great one too.
Even tho I use a mouse, I still have to make sure the cursor isn't 'on' something, such as a smiley face or this is wht i gt

I just wish manufacturers would leave things well enuf alone, you know?

Thanks for all the tips

I so agree with you it's not even funny. I was happy 30 years ago when I got my first IBM desktop. Costs me $3700. YOU NEVER FORGET THAT AMOUNT. I had to be a stay at home mom so I took in typing for lawyers and judges. Imagine paying $3700 for an IBM desktop pc and the whole hard drive was 20 megabytes. And the word processing software was called Multi Mate Advantage. Holy Cow, it's all coming back to me.

And now I have Windows 7, and I can do all neat things and desktops are cheap and monitors are COLORED!!!! My first monitor was some green font or something and we had DOS!!

Oh my god, I feel so old.

lol

Melody

I hear ya, Melody

I actually have my very first computer I used at my office back in the late 80's! You know the ones - with a monitor that reaches 5 feet in the back and has an 8-inch screen and a motherboard the size of a small skyscraper.
It's in a closet somewhere. My husband says to hang on to it, as it might be 'worth' something someday LOL.
Heck, a few more years it'll be an antique like the rest of us!!

Just FYI:

I have a laptop these days.

I've had similar problems with the cursor coming and going in the middle of my sentences as I type. It's nothing to do with the mouse in my case, it's more the place I rest my left wrist on as I'm typing. Bottom left hand corner of my laptop. When I don't do that, it doesn't happen. If my wrist gets heavy there it will take the cursor off into some other place in my text that I'm typing.

Weird but true.

Oh, I really dislike laptops. So I'm going to stay mum except to say no matter what we set for that #$%^ touchpad, it seems to go off on its own where I am concerned. I can be inches above it and still it is clicking away... some sort of telekinesis perhaps? Both of us use a mouse with them, but upNorth we didn't, and I am reminded of the phantom touch pad gremlin that haunts me!

My optical mouse on this standard desktop will jitter at times, and it is always some lint thingy doing it.