Jim

<monty1945@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> Sometimes the touchpad on the laptop gets "sticky," and when I try to
> move the cursor from one area to the screen to another, it just goes
> back to the initial spot. I can move the cursor as far as the
> boundary of the touchpad, but that's it. If I can't access the place
> on the screen I want to get to, then I have to use keyboard shortcuts
> to do things. After a while, it seems to just revert to normal. This
> also seems to happen if I open a PDF file. I'm using FireFox browser
> on a SP2 OS with a P3 laptop. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
Yes, I solved this problem on my laptop by buying a USB mouse. Those
touchpads are notorious for acting like that.

Jim