Most likely a mouse misconfigured, or a touchpad with tapping enabled? Try disabling tapping from the touchpad is what springs to my mind.
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i am very sorry if this isn't anything you can be bothered about, but if you > have any info to impart on it, you will be a figure of myth and legend, and my > hero, and there will be a movie about you and it will be huge. or whatever > you like, cars, houses... here it is: > > just got a toshiba laptop because we had this wretched little compaq (that we > will now drive over with an SUV and crush to a fine dust). the compaq had > this nefarious little quirk... as you passed the cursor over anything, an icon or > text, it would, as IT chose, select said icon (opening things left and right) > or said text (highlighting blocks of text) without you clicking on them. it > was extraordinarily disruptive, as it did it constantly. > > i thought this was just a freakish curse on me, and once the compaq was 86ed, > my nerve damage could begin to dissipate. because this just couldn't possibly > happen on a new computer, because it can't ever have happened in the first > place... because it is just too stupid and bizarre. > > so imagine my surprise when the minute i start typing on the brand new > toshiba, the very same thing is happening, with the same frequency. i feel like it > might have to do with static electricity, i don't even know why i think that, > but it's all that comes to me, and i am one of those lucky people who gets > violent, bloodcurdling shocks when exiting cars and touching light switches. > > do you have any idea? is it very fundamental and i am just ignorant? please, > i beg you, any help or advice will be so very very greatly appreciated, thank > you thank you so much for any help... > > lisa > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
