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

On 7 Apr 2005 18:50:58 -0700, "Reef Fish"
<Large_Nassau_Grouper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Reef Fish wrote:
> > R. Martin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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 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.
> >
> > 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 masked my laptop keyboard with a credit-card sized plastic card
> so that no part of it was exposed to my thumbs of any part of my hand.
> Sure enough! That seemed to have driven away my Keyboard Devil!
>
> Sorry for bring up the OT topic here. Perhaps others may benefit
> from it. The random jumping cursor seemed to be the result of the
> combination of LAPTOP and Windows-XP.

My experience includes the random, phantom 'clicks',
so I try to keep my cursor in innocent locations.
Clicks can move the cursor, but they can do worse.
I suffered one unrecoverable accidental deletion,
which included a self-initiated 'delete' and then
the self-initiated 'yes-I'm-sure'.

This did not happen when my Laptop-plus-XP was new.
I had a caught-virus incident, followed by my trying to
secure my computer. Norton detected a virus, apparently,
and then crashed itself irrevocably. -- I had never set
a back-up point, mistakenly thinking such a thing was
had been done by some other default.

Then, by accident, I managed to grossly disable my track-pad
by changing some setting. My problem first appeared, it
seemed to me, after fixing that, and after running some
additional anti-virus software. - I did a bunch of stuff in
a short period of time

That was months ago. I expect that the bad behavior could
be a virus effect, showing up after a re-boot or two, or it could
be a side effect from my solutions to the virus.

I'll be pleased if the 'click' behavior can be cured.
Maybe I'll try a credit card over that part of the pad....

--
Rich Ulrich, wpilib@xxxxxxxx
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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