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Using Remote Desktop (from Windows 7 to Windows 7), the caret (the vertical bar indicating where text will be inserted) sometimes jumps back to the cursor position. This causes the text I'm typing to be garbled.
For instance, I'm typing this text over such a connection; the cursor is at the start of the sentence I'm typing. At any moment, the text caret may spontaneously jump back to the cursor position, as if I'd clicked there, while I'm just typing, causing the rest of what I type to be inserted at that point, instead of at the end of the sentence.
This is very annoying and the Remote Desktop help or Google don't give me any clues. (I don't know whether it only happens with Windows 7.)
Why is this happening? How to fix it?
By chance, are you using a laptop? – Bon Gart – 2013-08-03T14:06:31.527
Yes, I am. And it only appears to happen in full screen mode. – reinierpost – 2013-08-03T21:50:25.087
It actually sounds like you are accidentally hottomg the touchpad with your hand while you are typing. Some newer laptops come with drivers that disable the touchpad while typing. – Bon Gart – 2013-08-04T02:10:33.997
Typed that from the phone, and didn't read it first... "hottomg" is actually "hitting". What you described, is what I used to deal with constantly with my 2004 Toshiba A75. I had to learn to lift my hands when I type to keep from accidentally tapping the touchpad with my right thumb and redirecting the focus of my typing to wherever the I-bar was positioned. – Bon Gart – 2013-08-04T20:07:52.257
Hmmm ... an interesting theory, I will check it, thanks! – reinierpost – 2013-08-05T11:47:58.167
Google found many confirmations, e.g. http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-latitude-vostro-precision/520315-precision-m4500-touchpad-making-me-crazy.html
– reinierpost – 2013-08-05T19:54:32.393Well ... that was it! Thank you so much. If you turn it into a real answer, I can accept it. (Simple answers are answers, too.) – reinierpost – 2013-08-08T22:30:55.423