Hi,
I have a Toshiba Sat Pro M10 laptop with a cursor problem. Every few minutes 
the cursor moves to the top of the screen and sometimes the bottom of the 
screen. It stays there and I can move it back up/down but it fights against 
me and goes back to the original top or bottom position. I am able to move 
it left or right only. Then after a couple of minutes it then seems to free 
it's self and all is well again.

I have plugged a USB mouse into the machine but this makes no difference. I 
have also reformatted and reinstalled the OS (XP Pro) but again exactly the 
same issue a few minutes later. I am 100% sure that it isn't a virus or 
malware but would like to know if it can be cured as the laptop works great 
except for this frustrating problem.

Cheers
Lenny 

"lenny109" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
> I have a Toshiba Sat Pro M10 laptop with a cursor problem. Every few 
> minutes the cursor moves to the top of the screen and sometimes the bottom 
> of the screen. It stays there and I can move it back up/down but it fights 
> against me and goes back to the original top or bottom position. I am able 
> to move it left or right only. Then after a couple of minutes it then 
> seems to free it's self and all is well again.
>
> I have plugged a USB mouse into the machine but this makes no difference. 
> I have also reformatted and reinstalled the OS (XP Pro) but again exactly 
> the same issue a few minutes later. I am 100% sure that it isn't a virus 
> or malware but would like to know if it can be cured as the laptop works 
> great except for this frustrating problem.
>
> Cheers
> Lenny
>
Plug in your USB mouse, then go into Control Panel and disable the Toshiba 
touchpad and see if that makes a difference. If that cures it, try 
uninstalling and reinstalling the Toshiba software for the touchpad; if it 
goes back to having problems, it's MTL the touchpad itself. Is it under 
warranty, by chance?
-- 
SC Tom

The normal cure for this problem is to use a "Synaptics driver"

More info here:
http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers





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"lenny109" <lenny@thetakeout.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
> I have a Toshiba Sat Pro M10 laptop with a cursor problem. Every few 
> minutes the cursor moves to the top of the screen and sometimes the bottom 
> of the screen. It stays there and I can move it back up/down but it fights 
> against me and goes back to the original top or bottom position. I am able 
> to move it left or right only. Then after a couple of minutes it then 
> seems to free it's self and all is well again.
>
> I have plugged a USB mouse into the machine but this makes no difference. 
> I have also reformatted and reinstalled the OS (XP Pro) but again exactly 
> the same issue a few minutes later. I am 100% sure that it isn't a virus 
> or malware but would like to know if it can be cured as the laptop works 
> great except for this frustrating problem.
>
> Cheers
> Lenny
> 

Forgot to mention that the synaptics driver is commonly used to solve 
conflicts between the touchpad and the mouse, the mouse should disable the 
touchpad completely, and if it doesn't, the driver should be replaced with 
the Synaptics driver that should work with or without a mouse connected and 
add more features than the regular driver.


Make sure you download the specific version for your Toshiba Satellite Pro 
M10 or for the specific OS if not available for the laptop model
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/outFrm.jsp?ofId=AskIris&searchString=synaptics&x=5&y=4

Mouse pointer jumps around as you type
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/outFrm.jsp?ofId=AskIris&searchString=synaptics&x=5&y=4




"checker" <checker@quickmail.em> wrote in message 
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> The normal cure for this problem is to use a "Synaptics driver"
>
> More info here:
> http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers
>
>
>
>
>