You should be able to reduce the sensitivity of the touchpad in Control
Panel.
Also are you aware that just tapping the touchpad it will act as left mouse
click?

"Margaret Bartley" wrote in message
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My daughter's Acer laptop seems to have a touchpad that is erratic. When
she's typing, she always has to watch the monitor, because the cursor will
just jump anywhere without any warning. I'm assuming it's because there
is something wrong with the touchpad. I've used her computer a few times,
and I want to drop-kick it.

She's fine with using a USB mouse, but I'm sure how to disconnect the
touchpad. If we uninstall the pointer device, will that mess anything up?
Is it easy to undo, if we do? When I get ready to uninstall, it asks me
to confirm that I want to delete those files. How can I reinstall if it
turns out that we still have the problem? In that case, we'd want to
reinstall the touchpad, since it's defintely more convenient than using a
mouse.

Many thanks