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Having difficulty typing because curser keeps moving into words I have already typed. Also, script on the pages keeps turning blue, and also a black circle with a line through it appears.

Help please

Julia in Derbyshire

Go to system tools then system restore , go back a few days,should sort it. :-)

Enter stage left Porkie Pie - he's the boy :-D

Sorry Julia - I can't help. You are taking plenty of water with it I presume ;-)

Hope you get an answer soon.

Oops, art'noon Merlin - you sneaked in whilst I was typing :-D

Mine does exactly the same, but not all the time.
Drives me mad.

Can't see system restore Merlin

Wend, plenty of water with it. LOLOL

Where is Porkie Pie when you desparately need him

Oh Gawd.

Has to be simple instructions. I'm not computer compatable.

Julia in Derbyshire

All Programmes,then accessories, then system tools, then system restore, it should then inform you what to do, just take it back a few days to when it was working ok.

My cursor also jumps into the middle of the text so my typing is inserted into random places.
Mine's a laptop and It might help if I could disable the touchpad but as it seems to be assumed that everyone wants to use that and not a mouse it is not straight forward. I have searched many times and no, a sharp tap on the indentation next to the touchpad doesn't work :-( :-|

Mine is a Lappy also. No mouse. 1st time this has happened.

JUlia in Derbyshire

Is yours an HP Pavillion g Julia?

Island, now your talking technical, or dirty. What does that mean.????

Julia in Derbyshire

This one Julia

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/hp-pavilion-g6-1325ea-15-6-laptop-red-11884755-pdt.html

The name is top right of the keyboard.

No Island, it is a Siemens Fujitsu.

Thanks

Julia in Derbyshire

Before this thread slips onto the next page, can I just thank those who contributed, and those that tried to help, particularly Merlin and Island.

To the 20 + who had a read, but didn't bother to answer, thank you very much.
But remember, what goes around, comes around.

Julia in Derbyshire

I think the circle you are describing is the unavailable cursor, a bit like a no entry sign. Perhaps you have a stuck key or another program running in the background,so the computer is trying to do two things at once.
Sorry I can't be anymore technical than that :-(

Best wishes,
Mayfield

Mayfield, thank you.
Although you say you help, I do understand what you mean.
How to do something about it, well that is another question.

Thanks again

Julia in Derbyshire

Well Porkie Pie was about earlier on another thread I notice :-S

The problem of the cursor jumping around is fairly common on Windows XP.
Very often it is caused by special software for the mouse / keyboard enabling "advanced" features. One of the worst sinners is Microsoft Intellimouse / Keyboard.

The first time I saw this I thought it was some kind of virus as in extreme cases the whole screen gets the shakes. But no, just a driver bug. If you run the computer in safe mode the jumping cursor will probably not happen.

Fix: remove Intellimouse/keyboard software (or other oem) and revert back to default mouse & keyboard drivers.

Thank you Rollo, very kind of you, to give the information.

Yes Wend, he was on the board, on the next but one thread up from mine.

Julia in DErbyshire.

Son has laptop and young daughter (9) uses it. He's made things easy by using a mouse so no probs. Must be a point somewhere on lappy where mouse can be powered