LapTop touchpad moves by itself

[willdevelope]

How to fix or stop my laptop touchpad mouse from going crazy
and stop the mouse pointer from moving all over the screen by itself

 

[electronicsfreak]

If its moving all by itself my guess is you have a trojan. Run this scan below.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

[kmcferrin]

It depends on the model. The older IBM Thinkpads and Compaq laptops with the pointing stick had a tendency to develop "pointer drift" from time to time. It used to be pretty common, and I know that they each had a software patch to correct the problem. If you have a touchpad, it could be a calibration problem. It could be a faulty or failing touchpad. It could even be a bug in the driver. At the very least I would update the drivers and check the vendor's knowledge base about this issue.

I find it very unlikely that you have a trojan that is causing your pointer to drift, but I suppose it is possible.

 

[Rick998]

If the movement drifts in a fixed line, e.g. diagonally to top-left-hand corner, then I would tend to agree with kmcferrin's diagnosis.

If the movement is random, e.g. moves erratically around the screen, then I would tend to agree with electronicsfreak.

However, just be aware that there are some 'prank' programs out there (see

http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/mousemove/

for an example) which aren't malware as such but are just as irritating if you've been fooled.

Hope this helps...

 

[BFOJ]

I had a customer with a Dell laptop that did this. The solution was to turn down the sensitivity of the touchpad. I don't recall the specifics, but there was a touchpad program that came with the laptop for accomplishing this.

 

[lifegard2]

Try seeing if you have the synaptics touchpad software enabled. If so, try disabling it. I usually disable this on my user's PC and it puts the sensitivity just about where it should be.