[gui-talk] mysterious cursor skipping all over solve3ed

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lol Joel --
Now you'll have to tell me how to do the same with my laptops.  If I take 
one with me on vacation, I invariably have a problem with it unless I bring 
my external keyboard with me too.

BTW -- by "their retinas" you mean the 2 van drivers taking your 2.5 kids 
around? or were you referring to the kids?
I could use a van driver -- male preferably who has good retinas, and will 
drive for free and wouldn't mind living close to his passengers -- maybe 
even with a passenger...lol
Take care.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:30 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] mysterious cursor skipping all over solve3ed


Some of you may recall that, a while back, I said I was having problems with
this. I'd, say, composing an email in OE and suddenly find Windows making
sounds at me that i was typing in a place where you couldn't  , that sort of
thing. Then I'd press Insert  F to see where I was, and I'd be at the
Desktop, or  in the OE inbox list or even in Word or whatever.

This interested a few listers, though not many. The general consensus was
that, as my laptop was still a   new experience for me, including having a
track pad, that I must not know quite where it was and be touching it or
even brushing a hanging sleeve against it. None of which, I knew, was the
case.

Well, an I T professional friend discovered that the track pad had gone bad,
become oversensitive, and we're talking the teeniest atmospheric vibrations
here, or maybe nothing stimulating it at all.

No, on my laptop there is no key combo or even a BIOS setting where you can
disable the track pad, as some of you reasonably offered. So he pried open
the keyboard a few inches, borrowed a tweezers, bent his hand backward at
the wrist, and pulled the track pad's plug out of its socket.

Then he fastened down the keyboard cover, and that took care of the problem.
A sighted person can still use a USB or Blue Tooth mouse, but that's a moot
point, as I have a Dell desktop, too. Whatever. For better or worse, , in
sickness and in health, until death us do part, this Acer laptop is mine,
all mine.

And so it ends. Yes, soon we'll buy the little postwar house with the picket
fence, have 2.5 children, and buy two mini vans and a driver to take them to
soccer, unless their retinas are going south, too.

The End.



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