Laptop touchpad pointing wrong.

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#1 Rawa
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I've got an Acer 5420 with a very annoying habit of not actually pointing at the spot the pointer is. If i click where I have the pointer it actually clicks half an inch above it. I've tried to install and uninstall the Synapsis driver, but i does not seem to make any difference other than me beeing able to scroll or not. I've also tried to have 4 fingers on the touchpad simultaniously without any results. Not even using an external mouse helps.

Anybody encounter this problem before? Got any suggestions?

Very thankful for any help!

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#2 205047247090237824329930235794
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You know, it wasn't too long ago I read somewhere about virus/spyware which tries to get around Vista's UAC by making the mouse appear on screen a bit of the way to the right of where it *really* is. Thus clicking "Cancel" in UAC prompt for something you've never seen before is really clicking "Continue", and more evil software gets to run on your computer.

I realize yours isn't to the right but below but seeing as how it sounds so similar, I would suggest a complete system scan with a good antivirus and at least two antispyware tools. I do this process regularly with AVG, Ad-aware, and a-squared.
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#3 Dogswithguns
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if you cant fix it, you might waht to get a mouse for it, that's what what i did..... but i didnt have a problem with my laptop tho.
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#4 Rawa
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Thank you guys I'll scan the system right now. As for buying a mouse I alerady have tried that, and it's still the same :/

Now to scanning. Cheerios!

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#5 Rawa
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Ijust got it working properly again. It was the graphic driver that caused the problem. I have an ATI HD2400XT. So if you have the same gear and experience the same problem. Just uninstall the driver and use another one. I use Windows 7 Beta and the driver it installed works fine. Cheers