Cursor moves on its own!

I am typing an email on Windows Live Mail, all of a sudden the cursor moves to a line somewhere above where I have been typing, and as I continue, I suddenly find that I am now typing in the middle of a word several lines above where I thought I was.

Sometimes a whole section of the email from the end and maybe for 2/3 lines up will highlight and when I hit the next key all the high lighted area will disappear! Thank goodness for Ctrl/Z !!!!!!!!

I hate WLM I much prefer OE but can't have it on Windows 7!! This moving cursor will drive me mad if I can't sort it out! .......... HELP!!!!!!

By any chance do you have W7 Professional or Ultimate? If so you could install Virtual PC - XP mode and then it's possible to enable Outlook Express.

I personally don't have nor want WLM so I'm afraid I would only be guessing. By any chance do you have a laptop with a touchpad that you might be bumping and could cause the cursor focus to switch to where the mouse happens to be pointing?

It is always safer and better to open your emails in the browser rather than an email client. If you choose to do an email client, then Mozilla's Thunderbird is highly regarded and recommended.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Nibs, does Thunderbird actually download the emails to the harddrive? Because what I saw looked more like a browser. I'm just curious, never used it myself, but was researching it a little for another post.

No it is just plain ole W7

I used to have OE on Vista and liked it but can't get on W7!

Yea I thought of that.......... and have tried to make it happen by touching other keys whilst typing but it didn't happen!!

I tried Mozilla, Firefox and Google whatsit??? But didn't like them - maybe I should have persevered - any other suggestions? I HATE WLM! Too much like Hotmail and now that's the dregs!!!!

The moving cursor does not, I feel, have anything to do with a live mail problem. The fault must be located elsewhere.
But, curiosity, in what respect do you think Hotmail is so similar to Live mail?

I agree with Dave that I don't believe it is so weird coding bug in WLM. I suspect it is either some key combination, like bumping the alt key when you hit the spacebar or tapping the mouse button or touchpad and it repositioning the pointer.

But Dave, I also know on Microsoft's Bing website that scrolling the mouse over the wrong portion of the screen (the stupid line of text right under the search) can cause a mouse-over action that steals focus from the search line and then everything I type goes nowhere and just generally frustrates me. So, not being familiar with WLM, I figured it could also have some annoying quirks.

Hey TM. Sorry if this sounds a little ignorant, but could you link me to that site? I,d like to give it a try.

No it does not, only if you choose to DL emails you want to store on the computer.

It is not browser-based. It's a stand-alone email client, similar to Outlook.

If the OP has MS Office, he can use the Outlook client in that application too, although I have never personally liked Outlook in any shape or form.

Here's a good article at Wikipedia about Mozilla Thunderbird

Just to clarify, before the thread begins to drift once again, Cheekiweki, are you using the desktop, standalone Live mail or the browser?