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    Touchpad Tapping?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by dabienman, Mar 11, 2008.

  1. dabienman

    dabienman Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've been using a mouse for the past few months but today I realized my touchpad on my 5791 would no longer "click" when i tapped the touchpad. The touchpad would still work but when I tap nothing registers. I have to click the buttons below it now for it to sensor a mouse click. Is there something I accidently turned off? I've restarted, installed drivers but its still the same.

    Also anyone know why my desktop icons keep re-arranging back after everytime I fully shutdown? Its not on auto-arrange :confused:
     
    dabienman, Mar 11, 2008
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  2. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    1. Check the Control Panel mouse settings.
    2. How do they re-arrange?
     
    pixelot, Mar 11, 2008
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    Weird. Did you ever arrange them that way? Try playing around with the arrange settings, if you haven't done so already.

    Nice desktop, btw. :p
     
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  5. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    That is a nice desktop. On the touchpad-tap issue, having the mouse plugged in may override some of the functionality of the touchpad - at least with some systems (I haven't used every system ever released :D ). On my vaio, when I first plugged in a usb mouse, I lost the tap functionality on the touchpad. I later on got it restored (it was a while back so I don't remember how, sorry :eek: ), but eventually turned it off because the touchpad is getting ... quirky ... by now and tap would do funky mysterious things that I didn't want it to do (like closing out an app when I'm in the middle of typing and haven't saved yet :mad: ).
     
    Shyster1, Mar 12, 2008
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    I recommend you use UltraMon, contact me via email, it provides an option to save your desktop icons position, and restores them at startup. My email is my username + @hotmail.com
     
    cdahmedeh, Mar 12, 2008
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    That oughta do it :D

    60sDigs.jpg
     
    Shyster1, Mar 12, 2008
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