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Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware?

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"Don Phillipson"  kirjoitti viestissä:ko2s4a$h9e$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> The cursor jumps (from the end point of typing to
> wherever the mouse last left the cursor) in Wordpad
> on both the ancient Toshiba Satellite laptop and the
> newish Gateway, so that instead of finishing the word
> I am typing (blind, being a touch-typist) the last letters
> pop up on a different line, perhaps in the middle of an
> unrelated word   This never happens on the desktops,
> not even when writing in Wordpad.
>
> Where is this glitch -- in the software or in hardware
> controllers for the mouse on laptops?

Sounds familiar. Same has happened to me too; turned out on one laptop I 
kept accidentally hitting the pointing stick when pressing keys around it 
(on some laptops tapping the stick is interpreted as a click by default). On 
another occasion part of hand sneaked on the touchpad, doing random stuff 
there. Could it be something like this in your case too?

P.V.

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Is it WordPad or the hardware? "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> - 2013-05-28 14:02 -0400
  Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? "P.V." <ano@nymo.us> - 2013-05-29 01:26 +0300
  Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-05-29 14:15 +0000
  Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2013-06-02 03:06 +0400
    Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-06-02 19:29 +1200
      Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2013-06-03 06:59 +0400
        Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? Sjouke Burry <s@b> - 2013-06-03 03:35 +0000
        Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-06-03 21:45 +1200
          Re: Is it WordPad or the hardware? Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> - 2013-06-04 06:12 +0400

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