Hello!

This issue was filed in Legacy Laptops and Netbooks. My solution works for an Aspire R13 (R7-372T), so I'm not sure that it will apply to your issue, but I want to post this solution for anyone else who may be having this issue.

I absolutely love my R13. It is the single smoothest, most energy efficient, best ventilated, sturdiest (blah, blah, blah...) machines I have ever used. However, I have recently had an issue where my touchpad will start acting up, seemingly at random.  It seems like perhaps it is interpreting two finger gestures when there is only one or something strange of that nature, but the cursor will jump all around the screen and zoom in and out of pages and whhatnot.  Super strange.  I have updated drivers, searched for help into the depths of the web, everything.  If I restart my computer, it usually solves the problem.  I was just looking into replacing my touchpad entirely when I had a thought: It seems like my touchpad acts up more frequently when my hands are clammy and mildly moist (gross, I know).  I wondered if it was possible that a thin layer of moisture was forming on the surface of the touchpad and causing it to become overloaded (I'm a software engineer. I realize that this makes no sense.).  On a whim, I grabbed some rubbing alcohol and cleaned off the touchpad.  No more jumpiness.  Again, restarting my machine usually resolved the issue, but this has been working less and less frequently and the jumpiness has been starting more rapidly after startup.  However, until now, I have never been able to make the jumpiness stop without restarting.

Again, I don't expect this to work for anyone else.  I have no idea why it worked and I suspect it to be a complete fluke.  But I have been frustrated by this long enough that I thought I would post my solution here for the benefit of anyone else who's been bothered by this issue.

Best of luck!
- NAV

NotAVirus said:

Hello!

This issue was filed in Legacy Laptops and Netbooks. My solution works for an Aspire R13 (R7-372T), so I'm not sure that it will apply to your issue, but I want to post this solution for anyone else who may be having this issue.

I absolutely love my R13. It is the single smoothest, most energy efficient, best ventilated, sturdiest (blah, blah, blah...) machines I have ever used. However, I have recently had an issue where my touchpad will start acting up, seemingly at random.  It seems like perhaps it is interpreting two finger gestures when there is only one or something strange of that nature, but the cursor will jump all around the screen and zoom in and out of pages and whhatnot.  Super strange.  I have updated drivers, searched for help into the depths of the web, everything.  If I restart my computer, it usually solves the problem.  I was just looking into replacing my touchpad entirely when I had a thought: It seems like my touchpad acts up more frequently when my hands are clammy and mildly moist (gross, I know).  I wondered if it was possible that a thin layer of moisture was forming on the surface of the touchpad and causing it to become overloaded (I'm a software engineer. I realize that this makes no sense.).  On a whim, I grabbed some rubbing alcohol and cleaned off the touchpad.  No more jumpiness.  Again, restarting my machine usually resolved the issue, but this has been working less and less frequently and the jumpiness has been starting more rapidly after startup.  However, until now, I have never been able to make the jumpiness stop without restarting.

Again, I don't expect this to work for anyone else.  I have no idea why it worked and I suspect it to be a complete fluke.  But I have been frustrated by this long enough that I thought I would post my solution here for the benefit of anyone else who's been bothered by this issue.

Best of luck!
- NAV

Thank you so much!! I can't believe that worked! My touchpad is working perfectly now!