My Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop...when typing, the cursor jumps all over & inserts what I am typing

Hi,

Check with System maker's support, on-line documentation, and/or forums as there

probably are Hotkeys that enable and disable the touchpad functions.

Dell - Disabling or Enabling the Touchpad Using the Hot Keyhttp://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?c=us&docid=424135&doclang=en&l=en&s=gen&cs

Dell Support

http://support.dell.com/

Dell Drivers - Product Manuals & Warranty Info (left side) - Tech Support and more

http://support.dell.com/support/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs

Dell Forums

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/

Settings for TouchPad are in Control Panel - Mouse (there might be several tabs with

TouchPad entries) and some have a utility that loads in Notification Area near clock on

lower right.

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If needed : (make sure you have rebooted at least once if the above did not work)

Control Panel - Device Manager - Mice and Pointing Devices - Double Click on Touch Pad -

Driver's Tab - Click Update Driver (this is may not do anything as MS is far behind certifying

drivers), now RIGHT CLICK on TouchPad and UNINSTALL.

Then go to USB Controllers and UNINSTALL EVERYTHING except the category itself (all in

it). REBOOT

This will refresh the TouchPad Driver and the USB Stack. This does not stop the touchpad

from working.

Here is the similar procedure in XP, Windows 7 and Vista's is the same except we need to

clear the specific device if present.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575

Then go to System maker's site and get the latest touchpad drivers.

Download - SAVE - go to where you put it - Right Click on - RUN AS ADMIN.

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This utility also helps to control the TouchPad :

TouchFreeze

http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/

Hope this helps.

Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP <- profile - Windows Expert - Consumer : Bicycle <- Mark Twain said it right!