Just weird

I haven't heard of this problem before and I can't find anything on it in here. The problem: My fiance just got a new laptop and it has a mousepad on it (duh) but whenever she's typing she'll all of a sudden be typing where the cursor is. I'm thinking this is a problem within the OS or some software. She's all updated from windows update so I've ruled out it being a driver for the mouse pad. She has a Compaq 3000 series, if that helps.

Is it possible that, while she is typing, she accidentally taps the touchpad?
Happens to me all the time... it's a horrible place to put a touchpad.

In the touchpad setup, you can turn off touch-clicking (where you tap the touchpad to click).. try disabling that and see if it still happens.

su root said:

Is it possible that, while she is typing, she accidentally taps the touchpad?
Happens to me all the time... it's a horrible place to put a touchpad.

In the touchpad setup, you can turn off touch-clicking (where you tap the touchpad to click).. try disabling that and see if it still happens.

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Thanks for the help Su root, I'm hoping this fixes it.

She can't find where her settings are for her laptop and I can't seem to find them on mine. I guess it's been awhile since accessing them. Do you know where they are?

if it's a synaptics touchpad (most compaq's are), you should find it in the standard control panel -> mouse settings.

She says she looked in her mouse settings and didn't find anything. I haven't heard from her today so I'm not sure if she's been able to fix it or not. I'll tell her to look again.