Re: OT: My Keyboard Devil (was Re: z-value)


R. Martin wrote:
> Reef Fish wrote:

< snip >
> >
> > All this lead to my serious question about my "Keyboard Devil".
> >
> > Recently, I've encountered this on BOTH of my laptops running
> > Windows-XP:
> >
> > I would be typing a sentence and sometimes the curser would
> > jump to the middle of a line/word several lines away -- and
> > I have to make the necessary corrections to what the devil did,
> > and resume where I left off ... and then the devil would do it
> > again.
> >
> > Has ANYONE ELSE encountered this phenomenon in using Windows XP?
> > I suspect it's peculiar to the combination of laptops and Windows
XP.
> >
> > It's getting to be increasingly aggrevating, and that's why I am
> > taking this opportunity to make this OT post to see if one of you
> > computer experts can tell me what the devil is my keyboard devil
> > doing and how I may eliminate that random-jump behavior of the
cursor.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -- Bob.
>
> I just got a laptop with XP. I don't think I've had that problem
while
> typing, but I do find the little touch pad mouse device is sensitive
> to even having a finger hovering too close, and sometimes the cursor
> will jump to a place I don't want or even open a program
> unintentionally. Maybe your thumbs are sending signals via the touch
> pad. Good luck.

What you observed is very true! The over-sensitivity of the "touch pad
mouse device", and the touch pad itself.

As a result, I had stopped using my fingers and used a wireless mouse
on one laptop, and a wired mouse on the other.

I think you may have identified my Keyboard Devil as Mm Curie
accidentally
discovered X-ray.

> Maybe your thumbs are sending signals via the touch pad.

That must be it! Since I am more or less "all thumbs", and my thumbs
do hang over parts of the keypad when I type ...

I'll try MASKING the entire touch pad to block any signals from my
thumbs and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for your observation and conjecture!

-- Bob.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Textjumping while typing on e1405 keyboard
    ... this is a very common problem with laptops that have touch pads and typists ... dell ships their laptops with touchpads with the tap to click feature ... touch pad and creating this seemingly random behavior. ... turn off the tap to click feature of your laptops touchpad. ...
    (alt.sys.pc-clone.dell)
  • Re: OT: My Keyboard Devil (was Re: z-value)
    ... > Reef Fish wrote: ... > All this lead to my serious question about my "Keyboard Devil". ... > I suspect it's peculiar to the combination of laptops and Windows XP. ...
    (sci.stat.math)
  • Re: Laptops with touch points
    ... Daniel Prince wrote: ... computer to have a touch point in addition to the touch pad that ... Are there any laptops that come ... The RIGHT REVEREND G.G. WILLIKERS ...
    (comp.sys.laptops)
  • Re: Idiots.
    ... some laptops have a button near the touchpad to turn it on and off. ... Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm ... and he turned off my touch pad on my laptop. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices)
  • Re: Laptops with touch points
    ... computer to have a touch point in addition to the touch pad that ... Are there any laptops that come ... (Ottawa, Canada) ...
    (comp.sys.laptops)