cursor going walkabout on Dell laptop

Robert M Jones wrote:

My daughter has a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, and just lately the
cursor has started drifting slowly around the screen on its own. Not
all the time, but quite often. No other evidence of misbehaviour. The
cursor still responds to the finger pad and the little blue movement
button on the keyboard. It behaves when in use, and then wanders when
it has nothing to do.

Sensitivity is too high on the touchpad. If using a real mouse,
disable the touchpad as users tend to hover their palms over or touch
the touchpad which results in moving the cursor.

Also see if disabling the "acceleration" option for the mouse in
Control Panel eliminates the drifting.

VanguardLH wrote:
Robert M Jones wrote:

My daughter has a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, and just lately the
cursor has started drifting slowly around the screen on its own. Not
all the time, but quite often. No other evidence of misbehaviour. The
cursor still responds to the finger pad and the little blue movement
button on the keyboard. It behaves when in use, and then wanders when
it has nothing to do.

Sensitivity is too high on the touchpad. If using a real mouse,
disable the touchpad as users tend to hover their palms over or touch
the touchpad which results in moving the cursor.

Also see if disabling the "acceleration" option for the mouse in
Control Panel eliminates the drifting.


Thanks. I discovered elsewhere that donwloading new ALPS drivers enables
disabling of the touchstick which cures it for some - although I haven't
worked out how yet.
It's apparently a recognised sign of senility in Dell laptops as the
thing warms up.

I'll try your fix as well.

Many thanks.

--
Robert

Some have found that unchecking 'enhance pointer precision' in the pointer
options tab of the mouse
in control panel fixes this problem.
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VanguardLH wrote:
Robert M Jones wrote:
My daughter has a Dell Latitude D600 laptop, and just lately the
cursor has started drifting slowly around the screen on its own. Not
all the time, but quite often. No other evidence of misbehaviour. The
cursor still responds to the finger pad and the little blue movement
button on the keyboard. It behaves when in use, and then wanders when
it has nothing to do.

Sensitivity is too high on the touchpad. If using a real mouse,
disable the touchpad as users tend to hover their palms over or touch
the touchpad which results in moving the cursor. Also see if disabling
the "acceleration" option for the mouse in
Control Panel eliminates the drifting.


Thanks. I discovered elsewhere that donwloading new ALPS drivers enables
disabling of the touchstick which cures it for some - although I haven't
worked out how yet.
It's apparently a recognised sign of senility in Dell laptops as the thing
warms up.

I'll try your fix as well.

Many thanks.

--
Robert

Unknown wrote:

Some have found that unchecking 'enhance pointer precision' in the pointer
options tab of the mouse

That was the option that I meant to mention (not the acceleration
option). Thanks for the reminder.