couple of things

[silax]

ok first thing my new laptop seems to have a life of its own i can be typing away the for some reason curser jumps and i'm typing elsewhere.
also will xp excell work on windows vista cos its just cost me 70 quid to buy an office that will work with vista and an excell for xp would have only cost me 15 quid

[mathare]

ok first thing my new laptop seems to have a life of its own i can be typing away the for some reason curser jumps and i'm typing elsewhere.I bet you have the mousepad/touch pad enabled still and keep brushing it with your wrist as you type so the cursor moves.

[silax]

not sure how do you disable mouse pad

[mathare]

Look under Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Mouse

[Win2Win]

Control Panel....under MOUSE :)