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Repair guides and troubleshooting for HP Pavilion dv7 laptops, manufactured by Hewlett-Packard starting in 2008, and featuring a 17.3" diagonal display.

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Typing letters in wrong position

When typing, quite often the type letter jumps back in the same line or on the previous line.

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This may due to your palm of the hand touching the trackpad when typing. Try typing without your palm of the hand touching the trackpad.

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This can happen with an overly sensitive touchpad. Some touch typists may brush the touchpad with the ball of a thumb, which moves the cursor on screen.

Try connecting a USB or wireless mouse, and then go into the Mouse control panel (main.cpl for those who like WIN+R shortcuts) and disable the touchpad.

Depending upon your model and drivers installed, your touchpad settings may have a "palm detection" option that makes the touchpad a bit less receptive to accidental contact.

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