{"id":366,"date":"2015-10-14T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2015-11-29T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T17:26:03","slug":"solution-mouse-cursor-freezes-after-typing-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-mouse-cursor-freezes-after-typing-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLUTION: Mouse cursor freezes after typing in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a client came to me with a problem where his mouse cursor would freeze for a few seconds after\u00a0pressing any key on the keyboard in Windows 10. \u00a0The delay was driving him nuts, and I empathized with him after using the computer for a short time.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, the problem appears to be mostly limited to Synaptics drivers, and only on\u00a0systems where such drivers are installed and active within Windows 10 (which also features its own &#8220;precision&#8221; touchpad driver settings).<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the solution &#8212; while elusive &#8212; was simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search <strong>Mouse<\/strong> in the searchbox at the bottom of the screen; Choose <strong>Mouse &amp; touchpad settings\u00a0<\/strong>from the results<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>Additional mouse options<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>ClickPad<\/strong> tab, then click\u00a0<strong>Settings&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> tab<\/li>\n<li>Set the <strong>Filter Activation Time\u00a0<\/strong>slider all the way to 0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-367 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/touchpad.png\" alt=\"touchpad\" width=\"819\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/touchpad.png 819w, https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/touchpad-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/touchpad-389x300.png 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/>(<em>Note the slider\u00a0just below the touchpad\u00a0diagram)<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/touchpad.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a client came to me with a problem where his mouse cursor would freeze for a few seconds after\u00a0pressing any key on the keyboard in Windows 10. \u00a0The delay was driving him nuts, and I empathized with him after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-mouse-cursor-freezes-after-typing-in-windows-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,187],"tags":[20,76,194,195],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies","category-hardware","tag-driver-problems","tag-drivers","tag-mouse","tag-touchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}