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The mouse pointer on a Dell Laptop running Window XP starts to "roll" to the Start button after about an hour of use. Any suggestions?

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Using a mouse or a touchpad? If the latter, may be a sensitivity or other problem with the pad...


On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 10:08 am, Vilnis Vulfs wrote:
>I have a question about Troubleshooting
>Driver Problems:

>The mouse pointer on a Dell Laptop running Window XP starts to "roll" to the Start
>button after about an hour of use. Any suggestions?
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I am having the same problem with the mouse touchpad drifting to the Start after about an hour of use. Did you figure out a patch?????


On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 10:08 am, Vilnis Vulfs wrote:
>I have a question about Troubleshooting
>Driver Problems:

>The mouse pointer on a Dell Laptop running Window XP starts to "roll" to the Start
>button after about an hour of use. Any suggestions?
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Hi Glenn, I have not found a solution, but the problem is intermittent. I can seem to fix it for a session by using an external mouse, but it creeps into subsequent sessions, every now and then.


On Saturday, July 5, 2003 at 9:10 am, Glenn wrote:
>I am having the same problem with the mouse touchpad drifting to the Start after
>about an hour of use. Did you figure out a patch?????
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(touchpad/pointer) This happened on my Twinhead, HP and now Compaq, in win98, win2000 and winxp. Quick fix is to go fullscreen into a command box and then close it. ie. Start/Run and "command". Alt-Enter to toggle between fullscreen. "exit" to close. Bloody annoying!


On Monday, July 7, 2003 at 9:58 am, Vilnis Vulfs wrote:
>Hi Glenn,
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>I have not found a solution, but the problem is intermittent. I can seem to fix
>it for a session by using an external mouse, but it creeps into subsequent sessions,
>every now and then.
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I was having the same problem. I found this Dell knowledgebase item and it seemed to have worked. http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1033230 I just installed the original drivers.


On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 10:08 am, Vilnis Vulfs wrote:
>I have a question about Troubleshooting
>Driver Problems:

>The mouse pointer on a Dell Laptop running Window XP starts to "roll" to the Start
>button after about an hour of use. Any suggestions?
>
>
>

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Hi, we've been having this problem with some of our Dell laptops as well. The problem seems to actually be with the "pointing stick" (mini joystick). Try disabling it, this seems to have worked for us. Ian.


On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 10:08 am, Vilnis Vulfs wrote:
>I have a question about Troubleshooting
>Driver Problems:

>The mouse pointer on a Dell Laptop running Window XP starts to "roll" to the Start
>button after about an hour of use. Any suggestions?
>
>
>

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Everyone talks about "disable the pointing stick!".  My one and single question is... 
 How does one go about turning off the pointing stick?  I'm on a Dell Inspiron 8000 
if it matters at all.  This pointing stick I used to use ALL of the time and it worked 
fine.  Now, however, it just goes HAYWIRE if I bump it and it takes me a good 2-3 
minutes to bump it to where it stops going haywire.  It usually FLIES to the bottom 
left or upper right corner so fast that I only see the mouse pointer for 2 frames. 
 Sometimes it shoots back and forth between the two corners...  anyway...

So, how do I turn my pointing stick off?  Is it possible to keep the touchpad on?







On Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 7:26 am, Ian wrote:

>Hi, we've been having this problem with some of our Dell laptops as well.  The problem 

>seems to actually be with the "pointing stick" (mini joystick).  Try disabling it, 

>this seems to have worked for us.  Ian.

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How to disable the pointing stick? i have dell inspiron 4000 ... this thing sucks ... the stick


On Friday, April 8, 2005 at 6:45 am, Ken wrote:
>Everyone talks about "disable the pointing stick!". My one and single question is...
> How does one go about turning off the pointing stick? I'm on a Dell Inspiron 8000
>if it matters at all. This pointing stick I used to use ALL of the time and it worked
>fine. Now, however, it just goes HAYWIRE if I bump it and it takes me a good 2-3
>minutes to bump it to where it stops going haywire. It usually FLIES to the bottom
>left or upper right corner so fast that I only see the mouse pointer for 2 frames.
> Sometimes it shoots back and forth between the two corners... anyway...
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>So, how do I turn my pointing stick off? Is it possible to keep the touchpad on?
>

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Disabling the pointing stick is very easy. I have an inspiron 4000 also. Just go to start --> control panel, then double click on the mouse icon. Under "Device Settings" you can click to box to disable the pointing stick. I am hoping this solves the problem too.


On Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 5:10 pm, Sanjay wrote:
>How to disable the pointing stick? i have dell inspiron 4000 ... this thing sucks
>... the stick
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ok, did that. there is nothing under Mouse settings related to pointing stick or the slick pad. Is this because the right software was never loaded for the mouse in the first place? im sure the system has been formatted over and over.


On Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 9:59 am, Adria wrote:
>Disabling the pointing stick is very easy. I have an inspiron 4000 also. Just go
>to start --> control panel, then double click on the mouse icon. Under "Device Settings"
>you can click to box to disable the pointing stick.
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>I am hoping this solves the problem too.
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usin win xp. make sure ur mouse is not connected. then follow the steps control panel//mouse icon//disable mini joystick.. to me the inspiron 4000 being how old its been out. might be better to use external mouse.


On Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 6:34 am, david wrote:
>ok, did that. there is nothing under Mouse settings related to pointing stick or
>the slick pad. Is this because the right software was never loaded for the mouse
>in the first place? im sure the system has been formatted over and over.
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On Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 6:34 am, david wrote:
>ok, did that. there is nothing under Mouse settings related to pointing stick... I had the same problem. The screen allowing you to disable the pointer is apparently not present in the base XP. You need to install the Dell-specific touchpad driver, available from Dell support at the URL below. Once I installed this, I was able to disable the stick and got access to many other tweakable parameters as well. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R61162&SystemID=INS_PNT_CEL_4000&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=283&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=4&formatcnt=1&fileid=77108

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Thanks for the info, it worked great for me.

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i have a dell inspiron 4000 and just wondering if this is a stable solution - and if i can get a confirmation that this is the correct driver to use. thanks!


On Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 11:00 pm, Tim Wells wrote:
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>Thanks for the info, it worked great for me.

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Hi, i can assure you that it works on the Inspiron 8000. I've done it to two computers. Good Luck, Tim


On Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 2:33 am, David Glober wrote:
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>i have a dell inspiron 4000 and just wondering if this is a stable solution - and
>if i can get a confirmation that this is the correct driver to use. thanks!
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tim hi i need your help i downloaded the driver as you recommend but there's no option to disable the joystick under device settings. Im on windows XP Pro Big thanx in advance


On Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 10:01 am, Tim Wells wrote:
>Hi,
>i can assure you that it works on the Inspiron 8000. I've done it to two computers.
>Good Luck, Tim
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I had the opposite problem..pointer stick did NOT work. I d/l the driver mentioned a few posts back, and my stick now works! Dell Latitude C610/WinXp home.... Andrew


On Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 3:55 am, Aidan Dun wrote:
>tim hi
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>i need your help
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>i downloaded the driver as you recommend but there's no option to disable the joystick
>under device settings. Im on windows XP Pro
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>Big thanx in advance
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My pointing stick enables itself every time I restart my computer. How do I disable it for good?


On Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 6:34 am, david wrote:
>ok, did that. there is nothing under Mouse settings related to pointing stick or
>the slick pad. Is this because the right software was never loaded for the mouse
>in the first place? im sure the system has been formatted over and over.
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Thank you Bill Rockenbeck!! Your solution to download the Dell-specific driver from the URL you provided solved my problem more than 2 years after your original post. Thank you very much. I would like to note that the tech support people at the my work could not solve this problem, but they did suggest me to google for a solution, which worked. Thanks a million, you have saved my sanity--this problem was driving me crazy during a business trip far from home.


On Friday, July 15, 2005 at 1:29 pm, Bill Rockenbeck wrote:
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Thanks Bill. You deserve many thanks from us. Like some of the others, I discover your comments with solutions 2 years after your solution posted. Thank you again. Nick


On Friday, July 15, 2005 at 1:29 pm, Bill Rockenbeck wrote:
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This does not work for XP, 2000 maybe but not XP, not on a Insprion 8000.


On Friday, July 15, 2005 at 1:29 pm, Bill Rockenbeck wrote:
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I have a Dell C610 refurb. Have had it 2-3 years. The persistent skitterish pointer issues destroy the utility of the laptop and affet one's sanity over time! I used all of the different Dell and Synaptic drivers__always running XP Pro. I found the 'eraser' driver conflict and disabled the 'eraser' in the Dell utility. Nothing good happens as it reasserts itself sooner or later and the setting is never really stable. I used several different mice_usb, ps2, etc. Sooner or later the pointer goes astray again. Finally I pulled the keyboard and CUT the smaller flat cable attached to the 'eraser'. Taped it up out of the way. Reinstalled the keyboard. BINGO__no more problems!!! It is the best and only reliable fix that I have found for this hugely irritating pointer conflict that destroys the fun and utility of the laptop. I am sincerely happy now with this little P3 laptop!! Good luck, Fallsoff


On Friday, January 4, 2008 at 10:36 pm, mj wrote:
>This does not work for XP, 2000 maybe but not XP, not on a Insprion 8000.
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