3201 touchpad - Sensitive!!

I have been playing with my new 3201 for a few days now and love it! Except for one small annoying problem. The touchpad seems to be over sensitive. Often all it takes is to put the pointer on an icon and it clicks itself,without even having my finger on the clicker, and opens something up. I spend far too much time xing out of unwanted windows. is there a way to adjust this? Jim

 

In control panel you can tweak the touchpad by going to the mouse option. Not entirely intuitive, I know.

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let us know if it helps jimp. these are the kinda little problems that can decide which laptop i eventually plump for

 

it's actually pretty decent from my experiences. perhaps u happened to double tap when u click on things? the default settings for 3201 are that when you

double tap = double click,
double tap and hold = drag,
slide near the right edge of the pad = scroll vertically
bottom edge = scroll horizontally.
slide to the edge(any side) and hold = continue sliding slowly.

i think u can turn them off in the control panel.

 

Thanks for the advice! I'm a real newbie and I actually didn't know that the touchpad was supposed to do anything but move the pointer around. I went to the mouse option and increased the double click speed. It seemed to make a little difference. But it still seems to open things too easily. Hopefully I'll refine my touch. I'll give it a week and see. Thanks again, Jim.

 

I found the touchpad too sensitive and too "featurific" for my needs. I turned off all of bells and whistles as they seemed to activative themselves when i sneezed (only half joking) but not when I wanted to use them. I do wish i could get the center button to act as a scroll wheel or something but there doesn't seem to be a way to map it to anything usefull.

 

But the center button does act as a scroll wheel.