Cursor Won't Go Where I Want It To!! [Solved]

Margarita Skies · Mar 18, 2011

Hey

I am in the same computer I wrote you guys from last night, the borrowed one, and for 2 hours now, the cursor is all over the place except where I want it to go. I've been fighting with it and it's aggravating. I am worried. This worries me. Any advice for this aggravating problem?

Sincerely
Magali.

alleycat · Mar 18, 2011

Mouse or touchpad? If a mouse, clean the bottom of the mouse and be sure you're on a good surface.

Margarita Skies · Mar 18, 2011

Oh, I am sorry I didn't go into specifics.

Ok, this is a Dell Lattitude laptop with a touch pad. It has Windows XP Professional installed on it and the hard drive is 20 GB. I have no idea how much RAM it has. Every time I try to click on something or point on the blank space to write something, the cursor goes somewhere else, and I have to fight to get it to go where I want to. I also don't know what size the computer is, if it's a 12" or a 14".

alleycat · Mar 18, 2011

Have you tried rebooting?

Bookmama · Mar 18, 2011

I would try two things. Rebooting the computer and secondly using a mouse. If the mouse works, then obviously the touchpad is the problem. I do have a work laptop that periodically goes into wacko cursor mode, scrolling uncontrollably. It happens rarely, so I haven't tried to make them give me a new laptop -- thinking no one will believe that this is happening when I can't make it happen all the time. Usually when it happens, if I restart my laptop, the problem goes away.

rhymegirl · Mar 18, 2011

This same thing happened to me a few weeks ago.

I have a laptop with a touchpad. It was the touchpad that was the problem. My husband said it is just not working anymore. The cursor was all over the place and everything was going blue.

So I had to attach a mouse to my laptop and now everything is fine. I just don't use the touchpad.

blacbird · Mar 18, 2011

Touchpads suck. Get a cordless mouse. I bought a backup one recently on sale for $15. Worth every penny. You'll never regret it.

Matera the Mad · Mar 18, 2011

Any frikkin mouse is better than most touchpads.

Margarita Skies · Mar 19, 2011

All you guys thank you so much!! I shut the computer down last night when it was having that problem and when I turned it back on a few minutes ago, it wasn't doing that anymore. I will definitely get a mouse.

Cursor Won't Go Where I Want It To!! [Solved]

Margarita Skies

alleycat

Still around

Margarita Skies

alleycat

Still around

Bookmama

rhymegirl

It's a New Year!

blacbird

Matera the Mad

Bartender, gimme a Linux Mint

Margarita Skies