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Russ · 21-09-2011, 11:09

It never happens when I'm using the laptop, and seemingly never during the day when I leave it.

All I'm aware of is when I leave the laptop on overnight to download something, in the morning multiple files/windows will be open (as if someone pressed the left mouse button about 20 times even though the cursor was left nowhere near that file) and once, one of the documents on my desktop printed out by itself.

If I had to hazard a guess, it's as if someone else is controlling the mouse (I have mainly pensioners and late-middle-aged people living around here, it's unlikely to be a rogue neighbour) but not 'intelligently' - I'd have thought they'd go after my bank details or something. When I was using a wireless mouse and it was left plugged in, I did think it may have been interference from something but this is happening when I take the receiver out. Even if I lock the keyboard, in the morning the 'Ease of Access' icon on the bottom left has been played with, as the options you get when you use it are open.

Again, disabling the pad would stop it or plugging a cabled mouse in but I want to deal with the problem, not mask it.

21-09-2011, 11:09	#14
Russ cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Half in the corporeal, half in the etheral Posts: 37,181	Re: Laptop mouse/touchpad with a mind of its own.. It never happens when I'm using the laptop, and seemingly never during the day when I leave it. All I'm aware of is when I leave the laptop on overnight to download something, in the morning multiple files/windows will be open (as if someone pressed the left mouse button about 20 times even though the cursor was left nowhere near that file) and once, one of the documents on my desktop printed out by itself. If I had to hazard a guess, it's as if someone else is controlling the mouse (I have mainly pensioners and late-middle-aged people living around here, it's unlikely to be a rogue neighbour) but not 'intelligently' - I'd have thought they'd go after my bank details or something. When I was using a wireless mouse and it was left plugged in, I did think it may have been interference from something but this is happening when I take the receiver out. Even if I lock the keyboard, in the morning the 'Ease of Access' icon on the bottom left has been played with, as the options you get when you use it are open. Again, disabling the pad would stop it or plugging a cabled mouse in but I want to deal with the problem, not mask it. __________________ From Jim Cornette: “Ty, Fy, bye”