I think I fixed the cursor jumping problem!!!!!

Like I said in a previous post. I had this same problem with a gateway
laptop I bought last year and now with my new Compaq. I was able to fix the
"jumping problem" with help from gateway last year. When I bought my compaq
this year I couldn't fix it after 2 hours on the phone with compaq. Tonight i
decided to check every setting on the gateway and match it with the settings
on the compaq. One thing I noticed is the pointing device on the compaq was
ALPS (or something along the lines of those initials) and the pointing device
on the gateway was synaptics PS/2 port pointing device. I went to the
synaptics website and surfed around a bit and found "support & driver
downloads". I took a chance and downloaded the driver for my version of vista
(even though my pointing device was ALPS) and it seems to have worked. When I
now go into the device manager my pointing device is no longer ALPS but now
is Synaptics. I am not sure if this is the best way to fix this annoying
problem but for now it worked so I am thrilled!

I had a problem where placing the cursor over a button and clicking on it the
cursor would jump up and over an inch or so and the button was not activated.
Usually on retry the cursor did not jump and the button was activated. This
problem stopped when I updated my NVIDIA display driver.

"petro" wrote:

> Like I said in a previous post. I had this same problem with a gateway
> laptop I bought last year and now with my new Compaq. I was able to fix the
> "jumping problem" with help from gateway last year. When I bought my compaq
> this year I couldn't fix it after 2 hours on the phone with compaq. Tonight i
> decided to check every setting on the gateway and match it with the settings
> on the compaq. One thing I noticed is the pointing device on the compaq was
> ALPS (or something along the lines of those initials) and the pointing device
> on the gateway was synaptics PS/2 port pointing device. I went to the
> synaptics website and surfed around a bit and found "support & driver
> downloads". I took a chance and downloaded the driver for my version of vista
> (even though my pointing device was ALPS) and it seems to have worked. When I
> now go into the device manager my pointing device is no longer ALPS but now
> is Synaptics. I am not sure if this is the best way to fix this annoying
> problem but for now it worked so I am thrilled!