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    ormalarkus Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Nov 5, 2008, 11:47 AM
    Cursor skips around
    I have a Toshiba satellite laptop. Whenever I try to write an e-mail (regardless of the account I use) the cursor randomly jumps to a previous part of the page.

    Is there a bug or a virus causing this?:(
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    Nov 5, 2008, 12:58 PM

    Your thumbs are lightly, imperceptibly brushing the touchpad on your laptop. I do this ALL the time. Took me months to figure out it was me.
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    Nov 6, 2008, 06:40 AM

    You can disable the touch pad, providing you have a mouse (USB connected) to the laptop.

    Do you want to do that?
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