I had a laptop that I was using a great deal a number of years ago and had the same problem all the time. I cured it by taking a thin mouse pad that people use on their desks and cutting a rectangular piece to fit over the mouse pad on the laptop perfectly. Then got some good tape and attached it. Worked like a charm!
Good luck, Eric -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sharon Gosling Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 9:38 AM To: jaws Subject: [JAWS-Users] Mousepad troubles with Jaws I recently had to bite the bullet and take my computer to be repaired. The mousepad was turned off when I took it. Now that I have it back the mouse is turned on and will not turn off. I looked up the specific command for my Dell inspiron 15-r and it was Function key plus F3. It said an orange light would come above the mousepad when it was turned off. This does not work. There is also a flat “button above the F key row that brings up the Windows Mobility Center that has lots of settings. This is where I always turned the mousepad on and off previously. Now it says the mousepad is off and when I press the “Turn On” button nothing changes. But the mouse is not off. The reason this is a problem is that Jaws constantly loses focus on whichever window I am trying to use. Mostly it flips back to the desktop. I am being scrupulously careful to keep my hands well elevated above the mousepad but it still flips off the window I have focus on. And it does it very frequently, usually in less than a minute. My husband is tired of listening to me yell at the computer so I thought I would write and see if this is a Jaws problem. Several years ago on a different laptop I accidentally had the mousepad on and had this loss of focus problem which disappeared when I turned the mousepad off. But what is different this time is that I am definitely not touching the mousepad when it jumps although it could be mostly when I am typing. Any suggestions to help resolve the problem will be appreciated. Sherrie Gosling For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
