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Posted by J. Clarke on November 30, 2004, 10:46 am
Please log in for more thread options Jerry Park wrote:
> Skydragon wrote:
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>>Hey..
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>>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?
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>>No, please don't suggest getting a secondary USB keyboard
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> 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.
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