
The installation is easy and it is set-up to automatically start when the computer boots up. It takes very little in the way of resources and solved the problem for me. If that does not solve the problem, consider installing a free program called TouchFreeze. Make sure that you have the latest touchpad driver installed – some people have reported that with an updated driver the problem went away. There is controversy about what specifically causes this to happen though the prevailing opinion seems to be that it is inadvertent contact with the touch pad while typing that causes the problem.Īssuming that you don’t have a defective touchpad – and the probability is that you do not – then take the following steps:

The indications are that it started with the Vista operating system but those who have Windows 7 are also affected by the problem. This is a problem that affected my Dell Inspiron 1764 laptop and after googling to find a solution, it turns out to be be a problem that obviously affects not only Dell laptops but those by other manufacturers including HP, Lenova, Compaq, Asus, etc. If you have ever, while typing on your laptop, found that the cursor jumps around for no apparent reason resulting in whatever you are typing not appearing where it should be, you have gotten, what I call the “jumping cursor syndrome”.
