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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> - Hunter S. Thompson
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