Laptop cursor malfunction

Red_Army · 26 August 2016 at 1:09AM

For the last few months, about 80% of the time whenever i use the touchpad on my Packard Bell laptop, the cursor flies all over the monitor screen which means trying to navigate to a part of the screen to click on something is very hard an annoying. Sometimes i can even move the cursor by not even touching the pad, i only have to have my finger close to the pad and the cursor moves.

Done a check of laptop with Antivirus and Malwarebytes and all come back clean. Anyone else had this issue and resolved it?

keith969 · 26 August 2016 at 6:39AM

Sounds like the touchpad is faulty.

agrinnall · 26 August 2016 at 7:36AM

Did you upgrade to Windows 10 at that time? I've found with both of my laptops that the touchpad drivers are not as good as they were on Win 7 / Win 8.1.

mrmike1989 · 26 August 2016 at 9:08AM

This used to happen to my laptop when it was warm or overheating. I found that using a hair dryer on cold for 20 seconds, (directed at the touch-pad) resolved the problem temporarily. I ended up taking the laptop apart to clean out all the dust and debris. After that it was able to stay cooler and thus prevent my touch-pad going haywire.