Help! Click and Drag problem

Can anyone help me with the problem I am having today with my touchpad?

Whenever I click and drag the screen resolution changes, it starts to zoom (at the moment it has zoomed to 125%) or the screen jumps down to the bottom!!!

My laptop is a Sony Vaio. I have Windows 8.1 and use Google Chrome.

I don't know if its a coincidence or not but it has only happened since I had a windows update last night.

Doing the jigsaw on the games board has been impossible today!!

Re: Help! Click and Drag problem

Not being an expert on these things I'd be very suspicious of the Windows Update.

Can you go back to a previous time-point before that update and try it or is that a bit beyond you?

Must admit, I can't remember all the stuff myself at the moment.........

My youngest's an IT boffin down in Devon and 70% of his time lately is rectifying Windows 8 glitches he says.......worrying.......................stevmk2

Re: Help! Click and Drag problem

Hi Joy have you deleted your cookies and temp files lately.
That is usually the first thing I do if there is a problem..

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I fink you need to mess with the mouse settings ...



Multi-touch gesture controls .

Careful it could blow

Re: Help! Click and Drag problem

Thanks Mark. What I really need to do, I think, is turn the multi-touch controls off! I remember doing that when I first got the computer and I'm wondering if I've accidentally switched it back on.

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Watch the vid as it will show you how to turn them off if that is what you want: the location of the settings.

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Thank you Steve and Meg for your suggestions. System restore usually sorts me out with problems so might give that a try. I will try deleting my cookies and temp files first and see what happens.

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I seem to have solved it!!!!! It was the touch pad but it took a lot of research to find out how to switch off the multi touch gestures off! I must have somehow turned them on but don't know how!! How anyone can ever get used to those, I will never know. Maybe gamers!!!!

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I don't mind a touch pad, just as long as there remains the left click and right click buttons on the unit.

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This happens to me nearly every day at some point !! it often zooms up to 150% and often the other way down to 75% and I'm not cliking and dragging I put it down to just dragging my fingers at the wrong time I then have to just reset ! tell you something else that annoys me I have HP laptop and often when I am going to top x other tools zoom out from the side, think it has a mind of its own