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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2004-04-25 07:16 am

annoying keyboard input thing

Thought I'd post this and see if anyone has advice.

Lately sometimes when I'm typing, the insertion point will suddenly change - generally to eight or more characters back from where I had initially started typing. This is especially annoying when I go to type a URL and hit enter and find I have magically typed something like

.comwww.yahoo

so, it's really annoying. I'm on a laptop (DELL inspiron 2500) running Windows XP. I've occassionally wondered if the touchscreen isn't to blame. But there doesn't appear to be a control panel on the touchscreen.

So, I thought I'd ask: Does anyone have an idea why this is happening, or how to stop it?
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[personal profile] elizilla 2004-04-26 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
My office is full of Dell laptops, and every single one of them has a strip of cardboard about a half inch wide taped to cover the top edge of the touch pad.

For mine, I just turned off the tap to click function.