My cursor floats all over the page!
 

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 :eek:

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. :D Mine has done that on occasion..and it is disconcerting. :hug::hug:

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.

Thanks!
 

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 t:ohis :eek:is wh:confused:t i g:mad:t

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

Technology leaves us in the dust!
 

I hear ya, Melody :D

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!! :p

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.

Yeah, my mouse does that too occasionally but it's never been a real problem with this laptop I've got now. I do need to say that when in sleep mode, I can hover over my desk even with a duster and it will activate. I do find it very disconcerting, but I figure there must be something I've not corrected. Seems to me these days that we need to be really, really careful and read all the information about what we're using. There seem to be so many tricks.

So far I am finding....
 

I Googled as Jo*Mar suggested, and finding out that touchpad performance is largely based upon human factors such as skin type (?), temperature, and humidity. Profound :rolleyes:

You can get into the mouse control panel by
Start > Control Panel > Devices > Right click on the mouse Icon > mouse settings, and then experiment from there, depending on the model of the computer/laptop. There are device settings or pointer options, pointer speed, synaptics pointing device, and so on.

I haven't got too far into that because I am having trouble staying online because I am unable to figure out how to enable the network adapter or figure out what the 'Interface Card' is. :confused:
BTW, this is a new laptop I am dealing with. My son's school laptops have no problems staying online.......but I am going off on a rabbit trail here, which is another whole issue besides the mysterious floating cursor.

Obviously I have some research to be doing. This is an Acer Aspire laptop.
I haven't even found the user guide yet (I think it's loaded on the computer somewhere). Crazy thing is - I've had this laptop for awhile and have been using it to post here. It's just that I'm finding out that in order to get these 'bugs' worked out, I have to go to the source of the information, which is confusing me more as the moments pass. The more I try, the more technical it becomes.

guess I'm better off just using my computer at my office :thud:

What operating system does that laptop have?
Windows ? - xp, vista, win7?

you should be able to find the wireless connection info in the control panel section.
but if the connection keeps dropping for some reason it may be timing out somehow....

I don't know if you have a little icon showing when the wifi signal is on or off, or if you are possibly getting timed out on websites??

If you can't find the user guide go to the Acer website and look in the support section.
You can get updated drivers & other things on most manufactures sites.
you can register your product & sign up for email notices & offers etc.

Just a thought besides checking for lint in the optical output port on the bottom of the mouse. How about simply changing mouse pads, sounds stupid and way too simple but recently that did take care of one of the Forums member with similar problems.

I have more wireless desktop sets (keyboard and mouse combos) laying around the house than you can shake a stick at. I keep chasing that neon rainbow when it comes to finding the perfect set.....still looking.

Finally, Keyboards and Mice are too cheap to be hassled with that sort of problem...just shotgun the thing out with a new one. if you have the same problem, then you now have a spare mouse and an obvious direction to go....shoot the computer.

I wonder if IPADS will take over and in the future, every thing will be WiFi and we will all be using IPADS?? I got a chance to use my niece's IPAD at a family gathering two weeks ago.

I was around a table with 20 people and telling them about my sprouting adventures and how I make ice cream with the Vitamix and one of the older people said "Oh wow, I wish I could see that", and I said "sure you can, there's a computer in this house (didn't know about the IPAD at that moment). I asked my niece "Can I bring her into the computer room and show her my youtube videos?"

My niece disappears for two minutes, comes out and hands me an IPAD. I said "I have absolutely no idea how to use this thing, find youtube for me and show me how to use this'. WELL!!!! I learned the darn thing in two minutes and there was Melody, passing the IPAD round where 20 people were looking at Alan making ice cream in the Vitamix, and my sprouting videos, etc. Everybody was ooohing and aaahing and Melody was going "Okay!!! this is what I have to save up for"

And I will.

And some forum member indicated that my link to my youtube videos is not coming up under my signature after I post.

Is this true? When you view this post, on the bottom, underneath my floating flower and the word Melody, there should be a link to my Sproutlady Melody Channel on youtube.

Can you view this? It should be right above the little clock. I just checked and I can view it. I hope others can.

Thanks much

Melody

It's there...watched Alan making ice cream. :D:D

Oh it IS there?? Yesterday, on another forum, a person replied saying "the link is not there, could you provide it" and of course I did.

It's good to know Alan is still making ice cream in cyber space.

lol

Melody
P.S. I now have muscles in my right arm that were not there prior to using a Vitamix. I had to use BenGay last night. From now on I will hold the machine and Alan will do the tampering.

This machine makes MUSCLES. lol

Indeed the video came through clearly for me.

I resisted the urge to get an Ipad because I felt that my small netbook performed all the same function and more because it had a larger capacity storage, connected to the email and basically had all the software that I was used to using when traveling. My net book did more and cost less, only I had to open it up rather than holding in my had like a clip board. Still with the cell phone functions they are adding to the Galaxies and now being able to tether your machine to a cell phone instead of having to find a wifi hot spot they are becoming more of a temptation.

Really??? They are tethering them to cell phones?

I have to go look at a Galaxy pad. Much cheaper than an IPAD.

Mel