A jumpy touchpad can ruin your workflow. Follow these simple steps to get your laptop’s cursor movement back under control.

Your Windows laptop's touchpad can click, of course, but it can also help you navigate through menus and apps with ease.

QUESTION: I have a "wandering cursor" problem. Every 5 minutes or so, my cursor decides it's going to shoot off in one direction or another, ignoring any commands. It usually takes a few minutes for ...

Get tips to revive a dead touchpad or settle down one that's acting skittish on a Windows 10 laptop. Matt Elliott Senior Editor Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and ...

Q: I've had many laptops over the years, and in that time, I've frequently experienced, while typing, my cursor suddenly jumping from one spot on my screen to another. Clearly, part of the problem is ...

Have problems with your Windows or Surface laptop where the mouse cursor keeps jumping as if it’s trying to evade a cat, when you do not touch the touchpad? That’s an issue that could make the device ...

Dell’s updated the BIOS and touchpad drivers for its XPS 13 ultrabook, which makes the laptop quieter and greatly improves cursor responsiveness. Dell’s updated the BIOS and touchpad drivers for its ...

Q: I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows 10. Whenever I use a word processing program, the cursor jumps to a new location on its own, often taking text with it. If I reboot the machine, the word ...

The line between tablet and laptop seems to be becoming increasingly blurred, but there's certainly functionality that only a classic laptop can offer. Physical keyboards of a practical size and hardy ...

Recently two of my relatives complained of the same maddening problem: They’d be typing along on their laptops when suddenly the cursor would jump, resulting in garbled text or even an unwanted ...