I'd suggest you go off to the Gateway website and download and install any
and all Vista drivers that pertain to your particular model of notebook.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Shawn" <Shawn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there. I hope to find an answer to my problem. I have installed
> Windows
> Vista Home Premium on my Gateway laptop recently and all seems to be
> working
> well so far except I have problems typing. No matter what program I use,
> AOL, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, etc., the cursor would move
> on
> me to wherever the mouse pointer is sitting on the screen and act like I
> left-cilicked the mouse, if it is hovering above something. Or if the
> pointer is on my screen I am typing on it would just "jump" to it, causing
> me
> to mis-type. Sometimes it would even highlight what I typed and make. It
> is
> rather weird. I hope I described this understandably. I have checked all
> over the web and I can't seem to find anything regarding this problem.
> Could
> it be a mouse driver perhaps? I have a wireless Belkin mouse and a
> Synaptics
> touchpad that is installed but I can't find anything that would cause my
> issue. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!