Computers & Networking

[shanewilbanks]

When typing a message(email or word product) , the curser will skip ramdomly to and the typing will appear in a new area of in an area previously typed.  What is wrong and how can it be fixed?

[xl]

A few questions....

• how old is your computer?
• Which inspiron model is this?
• how much RAM is on it?
• when was the last time you ran Disk Cleanup?
• when was the last time you defragged your computer?
• do you have a lot of programs running in the background?  Try closing some of them.

This happened to me long ago.  Once I free up some memory and removed the temporary files, my machine went back to normal.

[RealGeorgeW Valued Expert]

Have you ruled out the possibility of your hand/wrist hitting the touchpad?

[shanewilbanks]

It is fairly new (purchased less than 6 months ago) and it is a DELL Inspiron N7110.

Ran disc cleanup recently and generally have NO programs running at same time when doing emails or word processing.

The following is an example of the above sentence typed without correction:

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[shanewilbanks]

Yes, I have been very careful to watch for this happening.

[AaronE]

I would adjust the sensativity of the touchpad and see if there's an option for "palm checking" in the software which controls it.

[shanewilbanks]

Where will I find "adjusting touchpad sensitivity"?  Cannot locate this.

[AaronE]

It's usually in control panels or if the computer has a synaptics brand touchpad it's in the synaptics software.

[shanewilbanks]

Thanks, this seems to have helped.  Have not had the problem to re-occur, yet.....................

Thanks, again.

shanewilbanks