turning off touchpad when typing

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Hey..

Please help. I just got a dell 510m and the touchy touch pad is driving me
nuts. I'll be typing and barely touching the touchppad and suddenlly be
typing somewhere else in the message. Its very annoying. Is there a tweak
out there to solve this problem?

No, please don't suggest getting a secondary USB keyboard

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Jerry Park wrote:

> Skydragon wrote:
>
>>Hey..
>>
>>Please help. I just got a dell 510m and the touchy touch pad is driving me
>>nuts. I'll be typing and barely touching the touchppad and suddenlly be
>>typing somewhere else in the message. Its very annoying. Is there a tweak
>>out there to solve this problem?
>>
>>No, please don't suggest getting a secondary USB keyboard
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Don't know of any way to completely turn off the touchpad while typing,
> but the problem is probably associated with 'tapping' which usually can
> be turned off while typing (or permanently as I have it set). Click on
> your mouse controls in the control panel and see if there is a setting
> to turn off tapping while typing.

If it's a Synoptics then there should also be a way to adjust the
sensitivity so that resting your palm on it won't register as a tap.

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

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Hello everyone,

Nope couldnt find anything to turn off the touchpad.

Hmmm.... just checked and the touchpad drivers are not loaded into the
machine.

I'm just using the default MSmouse driver.

I'll load up the touchpad driver and see whether that will help.

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Hello,

I think I solved the problem - I went to Dell's site and downloaded the
latest driver. It took awhile, I had to register- then do a search. For some
reason, their site kept on showing the older drivers.

Finally found a newer driver (just slightly newer) which had a fix for the
problem.

It however took two reboots to get it going.

I also had to get Windows Install Hardware to do a manual search for the new
hardware. Windoze said there wasn't any problems but after I did the reboot
the new tabs appeared.

I changed the sensitivity and also the touchpad delay settings. Seems to be
ok now.

Hooray!



"Skydragon" <skydra_removethisplease_@singtel.com.sg> wrote in message
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> Hey..
>
> Please help. I just got a dell 510m and the touchy touch pad is driving me
> nuts. I'll be typing and barely touching the touchppad and suddenlly be
> typing somewhere else in the message. Its very annoying. Is there a tweak
> out there to solve this problem?
>
> No, please don't suggest getting a secondary USB keyboard
>