Keyboard issues?

In addition to avoiding or disabling your touchpad, a change in focus (that is what is happening) can be caused by various mal-ware products.

Run a full virus and spy-ware scan on your system.

Chas

First you should try and scan for a virus even though it may be unlikely thats the cause, the best way to scan for a virus is with trend micro house call which is here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
then you should try and update your drivers some of them may be out of date which maybe causing problems, use Intel's free utility tool to fix this: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/

Thank you! Yes I understand about the touch pad sensitivity, but that was not the issue, I have been using a laptop for several years now.

Thank you so much for the mal ware suggestions, I have since done a full scan and removed some un needed programs on the computer. This seems to have fixed my issue. Thank you all so much for the help!

Do you have the laptop that has the mouse button stick in the middle of the keypad instead of a touchpad? (usually it's that rubbery red button in the middle of the keypad that looks like a pencil's eraser.) That might be causing your problem, cuz on some old laptops, when the mouse button is already worn out, it gets a bit loose and so whenever you type on the keypad hard and/or the button moves as well.

Or how about this, has your laptop's keypad dirty? Maybe there's already a lot of dirt, dust, and stuff building up under the keys which makes them stick or malfunction, I suggest cleaning the keypad.

Or another one, have you spilled water on the keypad once? Even just a few drops is enough to damage the keys, or does your hands sweat a lot?

There are a lot of issues here that can contribute to a laptop's keypad malfunction, could you clue us in more on what's your laptop's keypad's condition?

Well I have no clue what was causing the issue, but I found a solution and thought I would share it with you all incase someone else has the same issue.

http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/downloads/list

So I downloaded that "program" and my courser issue is fixed!! yahoo!

No i don't have one of those roller ball things in the middle of the key pad, but I never thought of the keys being dirty or them getting wet. I do have a 3 year old so, anything is possible there lol. Thanks for all the suggestions, I really appreciated them!

As one of the first people who responded to your original post suggested, it is / was a touchpad sensitivity issue.

Still might be worth the effort to clean the touchpad.

Chas