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Flashing cursor keeps jumping around laptop screen & ...

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:08:22 GMT

... I'm loosing text

this happened before some years ago when 1st got my laptop ... it was irritating, but went away after some time

I am not grazing the touch mouse

anyone any advice

thank you

Re: Flashing cursor keeps jumping around laptop screen & ...

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:54:37 GMT

advice from @viridis is to get laptop looked at, because only some much which can be described here

I shall go to town's laptop centre on Monday morning

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Anonymous — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:05:06 GMT

@Anonymous odds are sending it in to be looked at will cost, first try backing up data you need/want. then do a full re-installation of windows. Odds are the repair center will do this themselves and if that solves the issue (possibly driver related after uninstalling something) a fresh install and update of drivers may resolve the issue and thus save you some cash. Depending on the age of the laptop they windows key should be embedded inside the bios and will just need the recovery disk. If not it's a more tedious task of ripping the key out of windows to re-input it later but that is a little more advanced (unless ofc you have a copy with a key at hand)

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Bambino — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:13:13 GMT

@Anonymous I'm sure your intentions are well meant, and @Anonymous will know that I am writing this without it meaning to be derogatory, but she is not technical at all, and won't understand much of what you have written, which is why @viridis suggested that she send the laptop away to be looked at.

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Anonymous — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:16:50 GMT

@Bambino that's perfectly fine hence my brackets, I sometimes wish computers had self diagnostics, but in this day and age the divide between users and hardware is ever increasing 😞

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Cleoriff — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:35:07 GMT

I googled this for @Anonymous and there are so many options to fix (laptop make dependent) that I decided not to post. There is also an app called Touch Freeze which appears to work for some and not others...So yes I agree taking it to her local laptop shop (which she has used many times before) is probably the best in this instance...

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Cairdeas — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:54:18 GMT

Oh I remember Touch Freeze @Cleoriff. .years ago I had a problem with the cursor jumping into the middle of the sentence I was typing. It was beyond annoying and that helped loads. Also changing the dimentions and vertical scroll on the touchpad settings. x

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Cairdeas — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 23:02:23 GMT

Oops..sorry. .that last part was a separate problem with scrolling..i just done them both together lol x

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Cleoriff — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 23:39:52 GMT

I had never heard of it till I was googling stuff to help Jane.....but it's amazing how many people it has helped

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Anonymous — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 02:19:41 GMT

Hi @Anonymous @Bambino @Cleoriff @Cairdeas

just lost all text from a post ... it's silly o clock ... was trying to thank you all ... will post properly later today ... Carcer my background is clerk/typist/telephonist/receptionist ... retired yippee ... updated my office skills on an intensive 6 month RSA Royal Society of Art course 21 years ago ... got a distinction = proud of that, & btb 4 out of 5 of us 'women returning to work' still meet up once a quarter noon on a Saturday in town for lunch & a chat

Somewhere I missed out eg was working, and now town college does very few tech related courses & what they do are expensive

Good to hear from someone new Carcer ... I hope you stay on the forum

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sheepdog — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:47:29 GMT

How old is the laptop? What you might find is that the touchpad is ever so slightly warped which is causing it to move around. Try a simple test: disable the touchpad but make sure you connect a mouse first!

Not quite sure where it exists on anything other than WinXP as it was in the taskbar - icon like a square with two smaller squares on top of it.

Re: Flashing cursor keeps jumping around laptop screen & ...

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:41:43 GMT

@sheepdog wrote:
How old is the laptop? What you might find is that the touchpad is ever so slightly warped which is causing it to move around. Try a simple test: disable the touchpad but make sure you connect a mouse first!

Not quite sure where it exists on anything other than WinXP as it was in the taskbar - icon like a square with two smaller squares on top of it.

thank you for replying @sheepdog you always talk sense ... laptop will be about 5 years old at an educated guess ... I don't have the icon you describe ... my gut feeling after various people's input is that it's the installing free Windows 10, then un-installing it , then installing it free for good which has caused things to 'wobble'

I'm off to take the laptop to the nice man at his own laptop business in town to see if he can 'tidy things up a bit' to stop the cursor jumping around & loosing of text

Enjoy your day Sheepdog

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Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:19:54 GMT

Hi, just to post an update

Have got laptop back from nice man proprietor of laptop business

He also connected it to the printer, which I could not have done eg could not find disk

Touchpad mouse is now disabled

Windows 10 now safely installed

£35 cash is good price

& he can also get me a tablet with his contacts ... after I'm off for a tech play at cpw at a time suitable to me, if I'm pounced upon I shall state I'm browsing

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Cleoriff — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:16:28 GMT

Good news Jane. Great to see you back on lappy...

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Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:51:55 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Good news Jane. Great to see you back on lappy...

thank you @Cleoriff it was strange without it ... it's no secret on the community that I have bi-polar type 2, have had poor mental health for many years & it will be with me until I leave this our earth ... the point I wish to make is that the laptop is my window on the world particularly when I'm unable to get outside of the house

I learn tech stuff on here

I have made good friends on here

Facebook keeps me in touch with school friends, trad jazz / swing friends / musicians etc