There are several other solutions you can pursue, detailed below, which involve modifying the settings of the TouchPad software to suit your personal preferences and work habits. With some practice, you may be able to adjust your typing technique to avoid accidental contact with the TouchPad. These unsolicited pointer movements and button taps tend to occur especially with smaller laptop computer models - which have the TouchPad set relatively close to the keyboard - and more especially if you make the transition from using a larger laptop model to using a smaller one. If the Tapping feature of the TouchPad is enabled, then it may seem that the left TouchPad button is being clicked automatically - as the Tapping feature translates purposeful taps - and also accidental light touches - on the TouchPad as clicks of the left TouchPad button. This may result in arbitrary selection of text in documents - and to its accidental deletion, when it is replaced by the next character you type. The mouse pointer may then appear to occasionally move 'on it's own', when the actual cause is the heel of your hand or the base of your thumb grazing the surface of the TouchPad. In this position, your hands may sometimes lightly brush across the surface of the TouchPad, without you noticing.

ResolutionĪs you type, you may find yourself resting your hands on the palmrest area below the keyboard. When you use the TouchPad, the mouse pointer may sometimes behave as if the left TouchPad button has been clicked. The mouse pointer may also seem to automatically select text, click buttons, and activate other user interface elements within your software. While you are typing, the mouse pointer (cursor) may seem to move or jump around 'by itself' to random locations on the screen.

This Support Bulletin is applicable to Toshiba laptop computer models that have a built-in TouchPad TM pointing device.

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