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    Disabling the "tap click" touchpad feature in Vista

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Percybut, Feb 27, 2007.

  1. Percybut

    Percybut Notebook Consultant

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    I have a m1210 and the touch pad recognizes a tap on the touch pad as a click.

    I disabled the feature in XP, but I cannot find the place where I can disable such feature in vista and it gets annoying some times.

    (I am so used to tapping the touchpad and I do not want it to interpret it as a click)

    Thanks in advance
     
    Percybut, Feb 27, 2007
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  2. lilredfoxie

    lilredfoxie Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you install the synaptic touchpad drivers?
     
    lilredfoxie, Feb 27, 2007
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  3. Percybut

    Percybut Notebook Consultant

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    Just installed the synaptic driver and that solved the problem :)

    Thanks a lot
     
    Percybut, Feb 27, 2007
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    Agent Greg Notebook Enthusiast

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    One thing that keeps happening to me is when I install the Synaptics driver with the software it ALWAYS BLOCKS THE SOFTWARE at startup and I have to click in my system tray to an icon labelled "Blocked Startup Programs", Click on the Synaptics program, and then go through UAC to let it run.

    VERY ANNOYING!

    Anyone else having this problem or have a solution to this problem?

    What angers me the most is that I can't make use of the scrolling function on the touchpad without the Synaptics software running.

    Also the touchpad now clicks while I type, moving my cursor. Also very annoying and I don't remember it happening pre-Vista.
     
    Agent Greg, Mar 2, 2007
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  5. Percybut

    Percybut Notebook Consultant

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    I don't have any problem with the touchpad in vista, works the same as in XP.

    For the "Blocked Startup Programs" thing, you may try to install the driver using "Run as administrator". It may help, since I installed that driver using "Run as admin" and it never gets blocked at startup. On the other hand, I installed Adobe acrobat without using "Run as admin", the adobe update center gets blocked every time on start up ....

    It is not a big deal, since you can always click the icon in the taskbar and choose "Run the blocked program". It's just a few more clicks every time you reboot the machine, and I am OK with it.
     
    Percybut, Mar 2, 2007
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