Help Browser Typing.....

[Trem]

When I am on the net and typing after about every thrid word the cursor leaves the text box and I have to click back on to where I was to continue typing. It does it on Mozilla and IE so I don't think it is browser specific. The border at the top of the page changes as though I have clicked on it.

This is driving me up the fucking wall and a couple of times yesterday my laptop almost visited the bottom of my garden with a boot up its arse.....look just did it then......I wasn't typing then and it happened, the cursor just left the text box as though I had pressed on the address bar.

Fucks sake

Any ideas?

Edit - Scrolling as well, I can be scrolling and the screen sort of flashes and I have to click back onto the scroll bar. It isn't me brushing the touchpad, I can sit and wait and it will do it.

 

[MYstIC G]

Got any dodgy IE toolbars installed?

 

[Trem]

Both browsers are as innocent and pure as me Meglar.

 

[caLLous]

That's not saying much.

If you open up notepad and type does it do it then as well? Something is stealing focus, is there anything dodgy in the system tray?

Alternatively, I had a dodgy Alt key on my old keyboard that stuck and would cause all sorts of odd things to happen when I typed. Give all the dead keys (Shift, Control, Alt, Start) a poke to see if one of them is sticking.

 

[Overdriven]

Laptop, are you not accidentally leaning on the trackpad?

 

[Trem]

Hmmmm maybe I have sussed it....or maybe not. The laptop is a Dell XPS 15z and it has a backlit keyboard which uses a light sensor to light up when it is dull/dark, it seems that turning off the backlit keyboard has possibly sorted it. Everytime the keyboard lit up or turned off it seems that is when the cursor was being a dick.

Ta for your replies luvs, lets see if this has fixed it.

 

[Bahumat]

Is it not the mouse pad? If you can effectively 'left click' by tapping the mousepad you might be brushing this when typing and it's moving the cursor & clicking.

 

[Trem]

I can use a typing wand from 8 foot away and it would do it. It does it when I aren't even touching any part of the laptop. Light thing seems to work but it's a pain in rectum having to turn it off after every boot.

 

[wolfeeh]

updated touchpad drivers? could be a bug in the version you have, or could have become corrupted....?