[Eug-lug] Windoze question

[Garl Grigsby]

Turn off the touchpad / nipple mouse and use an external mouse. Had similar
problems in the past when these things have gone wonky.

garl

On Nov 17, 2007 3:54 AM, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm battling to  finish a lengthy report with a deadline in WordPerfect on
> a WinXP partition on a borrowed laptop (my own system is down). But I'm
> having big problems with a cursor that jumps all over the place every few
> characters, in  both WordPefect and in Firefox when editing web forms. I =
can
> buy a few hours of sanity by removing and replacing the keyboard software
> driver, but it keeps coming back so I'm suspecting corruption elsewhere t=
hat
> impacts the driver. Any thoughts? The system is an HP Pavilion dv8309us,
> running XP Pro rather than the Win Media Center it originally came with. =
XP
> is fully patched. I ran several diagnostics, malware detectors, cleaned o=
ut
> the registry, etc.
>
> Appreciate any wisdom,
>
> Marbux
>
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