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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Computer Annoyance
From: Christopher Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 20:20:04 -0400
I¹ve had a couple of Macs develop that issue. In both cases, the mouse had
gone bad. Buying a new mouse fixed it.

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On 5/30/17, 8:03 PM, "olympus on behalf of Chris Trask"
<olympus-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf
of christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     Both of the Win7 laptops that I've built up have an annoying problem
>known as "jumping cursor syndrome", where the cursor jumps from here to
>there for no reason at all, and it's not just me.  Seems to be a chronic
>problem with numerous Win7/8/9/10 users.  There are sll sorts of remedies
>suggested, none of which have worked for me.  So, I downloaded the
>Synaptics touchpad driver and started the process of uninstalling the one
>that came with Win7 and installing the downloaded one.
>
>     When I uninstalled the Synaptics driver, I found that the touchpad
>still worked, and then it dawned on me that perhaps the resident Dell
>touchpad driver was still functioning, suggesting that the two drivers
>were interfering with each other.
>
>     I did not reinstall the Synaptics driver, and while I have been
>typing this email the cursor has not jumped once, whereas it would have
>done so at least once, perhaps three times.
>
>     This was also a problem with WinXP, and the solution to that was to
>install Logitech Mouseware, which solved the problem.  There is no
>version of Mouseware available for Win7, but it does not matter as the
>problem seems to have been the conflicting touchpad drivers.
>
>Chris
>
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