Vista Home Prem. making laptop mouse/cursor go haywire

[BlazingSpeed]

Well as the subject states, I recently installed Vista Home Prem and everything seemed good. I then noticed that the cursor would jump all over the screen like im dragging my finger on the touchpad back and forth real fast. It'll only do this when im using the touchpad and at times it'll even right click and bring up the menu like I pressed it. Even when typing it will jump around and put text in between different words and such.

Any ideas on how to fix this? The laptop is a HP Pavilion dv5020us. I already updated most of the drives on hp's support site but still no luck.

[Buntz]

Sound like you are still having a driver problem.  You might have to find out who made the touchpad for HP and go to their web site for the right drivers.

[eversman]

I have that same laptop, actually. when i installed vista, i updated to HP's driver for the touchpad. its made by synaptics by the way. the new driver is GARBAGE. ruined the ability to use it. go back and get the XP driver for the touchpad and install it, it is compatible with Vista actually, and works a lot better.

ev

[BlazingSpeed]

Thanks for the replys,

Eversman I too noticed that the vista drivers for the synaptics made it way more glitchy....Im liking the new OS but would hate to go back to xp because this is just plain anoying.

I'll try your suggestions and let you know.

Thanks again