Are you using a laptop with the touchpad enabled? This kind of erratic cursor behaviour is usually
due to a touchpad issue.
If you are using a laptop, I think we can help you with this. This problem comes up regularly in
forums and I've seen it myself a few times - jumping or wandering cursors. The wandering/drifting
cursor in particular can drive you nutty until you get it fixed.
Alan
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From: "fggybttm" <fggybttm@yahoo.com>
To: <simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] "Unstable websites"??
>I t h i n k I have gotten a bit clooser to what m i g h t be part of the problem. For
>example, in this message, at the point I'd finished entering 'the' just before 'point' the cursor
>disappeared and I'd had to go fishing for it, then, and several more times in subsequent locations,
>in order to finish the sentence.
> On a website couldn't this kind of behavior cause erratic changes from one page to another?
> Additionally, the pointer/cursor appearance itself seems to flicker between a solid black and the
> black outline of a white arrow, almost as if 'electrified' which also describes the jumpy,
> erratic, unpredictable behavior
> I've gone to control panel>mouse properties and don't recognize a solution if one is there.
> I've googled and googled - there's a plethora of similar complaints going back years, but found no
> solutions.
> ;-((
> FB
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> --- In simplycomputes2@yahoogroups.com, David Ron <david.m.ron@...> wrote:
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>> We can't really give you the best hds orelp until you give us the opportunity to
>> replicate the problem on our computers. The best way to do that is to
>> provide the information previously requested: what's the url of the website
>> you are having trouble visiting?
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>> - David
>> On May 26, 2011 5:15 PM, "fggybttm" <fggybttm@...> wrote:
>> > Well, I t h i n k I should have been clicking on the item/page if I wanted
>> to stabilize the image/display. Could that be? ;-((
>> > ;-))
>> > FB
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>> > --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, Joan Leach <jleach728@> wrote:
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>> >> If you're using SM, like Puppy Linux uses, instead of Firefox or IE, it
>> could be the Web browser, too. Sometimes versions get released a bit too
>> early...Try IE8 or Firefox without the Plug-ins, etc. as a test.
>> >> Joan in Reno
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>> >> --- On Wed, 5/25/11, John Peters <johnpetpub@> wrote:
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>> >> From: John Peters <johnpetpub@>
>> >> Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] "Unstable websites"??
>> >> To: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
>> >> Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 9:57 AM
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>> >> > I've been trying to navigate a small engine website, but the pages just
>> won't stay visible. Could that be the result of something wrong with my
>> computer/software/etc? For example, at the moment I seem to have a jumpy
>> cursor;-)
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