Jumping curser does anyone know what it is

[roadman65]

I am noticing a lot lately that when I type anything that  my cursor jumps to a previous point in the paragraph and disrupts what I am writing totally.  In fact it happened twice in this past sentence.  Its annoying and cannot figure out what I am doing that it happens.

Is there a shortcut I do not know about that I may be doing something unconscious that is causing it?  It happens not only on one but all of my computers when I type here on the forum, Facebook, and other word documents, so it must be a common feature on the computer that I unawaringlly do when typing. 

BTW it jumped when typing the word typing three times. 

[hotdogPi]

Are you clicking? Is that's what's causing it?

[NE2]

http://www.google.com/search?q=jumping+cursor
Unless you mean that it's making you swear.

[Alps]

http://www.google.com/search?q=virus

... if your computer is ever doing something unusual, don't ask AARoads, go fix it

[vdeane]

Do you have a laptop?  Touchpads do that ALL THE TIME.

[hotdogPi]

http://www.google.com/search?q=virus

Oh no! I clicked that link!

[sammi]

Do you have a laptop?  Touchpads do that ALL THE TIME.

Yup. It happens a lot on my computer too. Sometimes my cursor just goes to the upper-right-hand corner of the screen and clicks, so it closes whatever program I'm working with. Especially noticeable when I have like 15 tabs open in Chrome. I found out that it was caused by a driver, so I updated it and it happens less frequently now.

[Truvelo]

My laptop touchpad had this problem. I found that by pressing firmly when moving the curser it was treated as a click and that made the curser move. To cure it you need to go into the settings for your touchpad and disable the tap action and only allow the buttons below the touchpad to be used to perform a mouse click. Better still, and this is what I eventually did, is to plug a proper mouse into your laptop and totally disable the touchpad as sometimes your hands can accidently touch the touchpad when typing which also causes the curser to move.

[hbelkins]

My old white MacBook had that problem. Put pressure from the heel of your hand to the side of the trackpad and the cursor would jump. I suspect it had to do with the plastic body of the computer. Haven't had that problem since I upgraded to a MacBook Pro with the aluminum body.

[hotdogPi]

Put pressure from the heel of your hand to the side of the trackpad and the cursor would jump.

That counted as a click.

[realjd]

Laptop with a touchscreen? Recalibrate it.