You can turn the touchpad off while you are typing, or, assuming you may be
using a mouse (plugged into a usb port maybe), you can just leave it off
altogether, which is what I do at home.
senortout
ps my touchpad on/off control is on one of the f(function keys) along the
top of my keyboard. Do you have that too?
"petro" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> just got a new compac laptop yesterday and the keyboard/touch pad is very
> sensitive. I can be typing along and all of a sudden a new windows pops
> open
> or my cursor jumps to another spot on the page as I am typing.
>
> I remember when we bought our other laptop earlier in the year I had to
> down
> load a patch to fix this but I can't find the patch anywhere on the vista
> website. Any suggestions?