Why is my cursor jumping all over my screen?

Every hour or two that my computer is on, my cursor starts jumping around the screen and clicking randomly. It appears to be a touchpad issue as I can turn off the touchpad to make it stop moving, and then use a mouse just fine.

I thought that the problem might be dust either on or under the touchpad. However, I have found that restarting the computer fixes the issue until the next time the cursor goes crazy again.

I tried updating all of my drivers to the most current ones with no luck.

P.S. This could be related, but sometimes my touchpad just disables itself as well. When this happens and I try pressing the button to enable/disable it, it always says "touchpad disabled" instead of alternating between enabled and disabled. The button works fine when the touchpad does not disable itself.

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

1
Go to the support page for your laptop on the PC manufacturers website, then from there, download and re-install the version of touchpad drivers they provide.

2
Open the Settings app, and on the touchpad settings section, lower the touchpad sensitivity settings as much as possible.
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