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    Touchpad Voes

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by smartsiva456, Jun 21, 2005.

  1. smartsiva456

    smartsiva456 Newbie

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    Hi all.

    I've got a Dell Inspiron 6000 that I bought this April. I'm that type of a person (impatient) who likes to have a fast mouse pointer so that there is no time wasted in moving it around.

    Now, I recently celebrated my birthday this year in May, and my friends presented me with a Logitech Wireless Optical Mouse. It works fine and all. But, somehow, my touchpad is jealous of it. I use the mouse in school, and use the touchpad when I take the notebook home. I set the speed of the mouse pointer in Control Panel>Mouse>Pointer Options to "Fast" and "Enhance Pointer Precision". However, whenever I restart the computer, it automatically goes back to the default speed, which is midway between "Slow" and "Fast". So, everytime that I switch on my computer, I've to go to the Control Panel and change the mouse pointer option to "Fast".

    Can anyone please tell me why this is happening, and how I can get the mouse pointer option to set at the speed I want it to, irrespective of if I use the mouse or not ?

    Any help will be appreciated.

    Thanks.
     
    smartsiva456, Jun 21, 2005
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  2. Downside

    Downside Notebook Enthusiast

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    Best advice I can give is to experiment with the different software packages/drivers for each device. Have you installed both the touchpad and logitech software? If it doesn't seem to work with both installed, try just one or the other.

    I use a combination of touchpad and an external usb mouse by razer, and using the two softwre packages/drivers together seems to work well.
     
    Downside, Jun 21, 2005
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  3. BruZZi

    BruZZi Notebook Guru

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    Unfortunately you cannot have both softwares installed at the same time. I was having the same problem with my Logitech MX700 (previous) & MX1000 (current). Since I don't use the touchpad much I deleted its software and use only the Setpoint by Logitech.
    The touchpad will still have the basic functions but the scrolling feature won't be available.

    I6000 / Pentium M 2.0GHz / Hitachi 60GB 7200rpm / ATI Radeon X300 64MB
     
     
    BruZZi, Jun 21, 2005
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  4. GoldBeater

    GoldBeater Newbie

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    Oh THAT's a bummer!
    I'm pretty particular about my touchy thingy, too! I have nearly ALL the settings adjusted differently than "default".
    I plan on getting a Blue Tooth board to install in my I9200, and then a mouse.
    Is there a way I can I save the settings I make to the touchpad so that I can "reinstall" them easily if this happens to me?
    Like some way to set the "default" values to what I have them at now?

    Happy Dell I9200 owner.
     
    GoldBeater, Jun 22, 2005
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