overshoot

I'm just wondering if it's possible to reduce the amount of ghosting on a laptop. I have looked around for answers but never found anything. I know on a desktop monitor you go into the monitor's built-in menu and enable overdrive but you can't really do that on a laptop. The laptop I have has...

In case this helps anyone, I have an Acer Aspire 5 laptop, 4 months old with a Synaptics touchpad. A few days ago, the cursor started to overshoot by a few mm (enough to miss the target) when I moved it to the left or upwards. 'Overshoot', meaning the cursor continued to move after my finger...