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while writing my touchpad pointing device jumps all over the page?

i have a compaq laptop...the pointing device jumps all over the place
cosmo, October 2009
Your fingers (balls of the thumbs probably) are brushing against the touchpad as you type.

If you use a mouse as a pointing device rather than the touchpad there are Software Mouse drivers that can be set to automatically disable the touchpad whenever a mouse is plugged in.

Peccavi, October 2009
link Click here to see other fixes for Compaq.