$%^&ing-well hate my laptop!

[DanaC]

Okay.....that was perhaps just a little extreme, but it's really starting wind me up now.

I start typing and everythings just pukka, my eyes drift down to the keyboard and when I look up again, the cursor and therefore the letters i am typing have jumped from where they're supposed to be and are now typing in the middle of one of the previous lines. Often this happens midword. Sometimes it just jumps back a little on the same line.....some times, I think I am still typing and actually the cursor has moved off the text box entirely, theres a sudden couple of clicks as I press enter, thinking I am jumping down a line and bang! I've just gone two or three pages and the post i've been working on has been lost. No amount of using the back and forward buttons can retrieve it, I have effectively deleted the whole thing.

Similar stuff happens when writing emails, or even when just typing a letter, story or poem in Word. I have to check everything five hundred $%^&ing times just to make sure there isn't some bizarre merging of words, or half a sentence inserted in between the first and second half of the word 'yesterday' or somesuch.

I don't know why it does this, I have tried to figure it out. I have studiously typed slowly and watched the keys I am pressing but somehow, I still find the cursor jumps to somewhere else, and I am at a loss as to what I have pressed to make it do that.

I really need to fix my desktop computer. It is so much better than this hunk of junk (yes I know, the problem I described is an operational one and nothing to do with the quality of the machine, but trust me, it's local authority issue therefore it's age can be roughly equated with that of Noah's boat.) I miss my proper computer.