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General discussion

Cursor Highlights Everything

Feb 14, 2011 12:30PM PST

I just purchased a Dell Inspiron Laptop. The cursor highlights everything on the page. Can someone give me some understandable advice about what I can do to stop this prroblem. It is running on Windows7

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Highlighting cursor
Feb 18, 2011 8:35AM PST

Try shutting off your trackpad mouse in the control panel and plug in another mouse. If that fixes it your built in mouse has a problem.

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(NT) Checked For Updated Touchpad Drivers?
Feb 19, 2011 9:39AM PST
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The Touch Pad
Feb 19, 2011 7:49PM PST

I discovered that the touch pad needed to be adjusted. I had asked a Dell technician about this and he never said a word about this being the problem. Instead of helping me to work out the problem, he tried to sell me a $99.99 anti-virus product to prevent it from happening in the future. My youngest son came over and in three clicks it was corrected.

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Quit dragging your thumb ...
Feb 19, 2011 10:03AM PST

across the touchpad while typing - I too have a lazy thumb that does the same thing if I am not careful.