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1)Why when I'm typing an e mail does the text suddenly jump from the next letter to where the mouse cursor happens to be on the page, it does it on my laptop and desktop, really annoying as I have to look at the keyboard to type.
2) What is the point of these random letters on various websites that one has to type to verify they can see?
1) Thunderbird?
2) Anti-spam measures
2) to stop automated bots filling out forms. Some are quite clever, and can read the basic font ones - hence you get complicated scripts on some websites (hotmail, GMail, etc)
Just goes to show how much of a numpty I am, I don't really understand either of your replies. Is Thunderbird a joke, I was really after a solution to this as it is frustrating to have to undo and retype stuff. I use Firefox on my desktop but Outlook on my laptop if that helps
What program do you use for email?
2nd one in simple terms - those images are to (try) prove you are a human being, not just a computer program trying to (for example) register on a forum and use it to spam people.
thunderbird is an email application you can download for free, and is a pretty good app.
2, There are these interweb robots right? They like nothing better than fill in forms to get into websites and cause havoc.
That funny text confuses them and stops them getting in...
Thanks for explaining point 2, my email is a work one and is Microsoft Outlook, this is where I have most problems as I have to type fairly lengthy e mails for my job.
Sadly your thread title has the answer to your questions....
1) if you'd just said laptop, i'd have said "leaning on the trackpad".
You don't have the accessability option on that lets you do mouse-clicks with the keyboard do you, and are pressing that key(combo)?
2. It is a [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Turing_test ]Reverse Turing Test[/url]
Thanks for the positive input, I don't mind being a numpty at least I'm not a smug numpty.(aimed at Bigyinn not the helpful ones)
1) if you'd just said laptop, i'd have said "leaning on the trackpad".
Ditto. On a desktop, no idea.
Sorry pistonbroke, was having a bad afternoon, my apologies.
If I've read your post correctly, there seems to be lots of people having the same issue.
Couple of links to check out, see if they help:
[url= http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/cursor-jumps-while-typing-in-windows7/20523d9c-0375-4f02-92f7-adc0ada2d4ba ]Link 1[/url]
[url= http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/6eeae790-605a-48d7-90f0-a0ea8a27954f ]Link 2[/url]
I've seen quite a lot of issues like 1) where people have their voice recognition software turned on.
People are really playing down 2) though. It is *way* more intelligent than just anti-bot software.
[url] http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore [/url]
Yeah only place I've had the annoying jumping about whilst typing is on a laptop so now disable the pad on it