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 ...

If your laptop’s mouse pad, also known as the trackpad or touchpad, has started acting up, it’s not uncommon.

Could you list your laptop's brand and model number? Some manufacturers have shortkeys, keyboard combo's or even dedicated buttons like my laptop to disable the touchpad.

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 ...

Windows 8 gave laptop manufacturers the chance to be creative, opening the old keyboard-and-touchpad design to new touchscreen models that were previously niche or didn’t exist at all. A wide variety ...

A touchpad, also known as a trackpad, is a pointing device commonly found on laptops and some desktop computer keyboards. It offers a convenient and portable way to interact with a laptop or notebook ...

The Touchpad can sometimes be accidentally disabled on your laptop, or you may disable it because it's overly responsive. If you would like to switch it back on or shut it off, this tutorial will walk ...

Many moons ago I wrote about TouchFreeze, a free laptop utility that solves one of life’s most maddening problems: accidental swipes of your touchpad while typing. (Why isn’t Windows smart enough to ...