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From: Wayne Fulton on 2 Mar 2005 18:50 A friend has a new Dell 1150 laptop. The mouse pad left button automatically clicks as it hovers over a menu or button, frequently, often within a second or two. When a dialog or window comes up, and as the mouse hovers, it often gets answered automatically. Or maybe the window just automatically gets minimized sometimes. Computer operation becomes very frustrating this way. Is this just a defective mouse pad button switch? Acts as if the switch contacts must be touching much of the time, although mechanically it feels about right. Does the laptop have to go back to Dell for repair for this, or is there some setting or adjustment? The Mouse Control Panel only has double click and cursor speed.
From: Brian on 2 Mar 2005 19:16 Wayne Fulton <nospam(a)invalid.com> wrote: > A friend has a new Dell 1150 laptop. The mouse pad left button > automatically clicks as it hovers over a menu or button, frequently, > often within a second or two. When a dialog or window comes up, and as > the mouse hovers, it often gets answered automatically. Or maybe the > window just automatically gets minimized sometimes. Computer operation > becomes very frustrating this way. > Is this just a defective mouse pad button switch? Acts as if the switch > contacts must be touching much of the time, although mechanically it > feels about right. Does the laptop have to go back to Dell for repair > for this, or is there some setting or adjustment? The Mouse Control > Panel only has double click and cursor speed. Touchpads are commonly setup so that a tap on the pad equals a left click. (Beyond that a lot of mouse drivers offer all sorts of loop, straight line, zip stuff that is supposed to make life grand ... I find it distracting) You can try out the tap thing. Should be easy enough to test. And you'll feel better knowing it's not a hardware issue. You can probably turn it off in the mouse control panel. Go Start-> Control Panel-> (switch to classic view if you haven't already) -> Mouse. You probably have either Alps or Synaptics touchpad. They're configured differently and different versions have different features. Just stumble around and take a look. You should see something that looks related.
From: Wayne Fulton on 2 Mar 2005 23:20 In article <d05l1b$7ns$1(a)gondor.sdsu.edu>, b(a)fake.com says... >Touchpads are commonly setup so that a tap on the pad equals a left >click. (Beyond that a lot of mouse drivers offer all sorts of loop, >straight line, zip stuff that is supposed to make life grand ... I >find it distracting) > >You can try out the tap thing. Should be easy enough to test. And >you'll feel better knowing it's not a hardware issue. > >You can probably turn it off in the mouse control panel. Go Start-> >Control Panel-> (switch to classic view if you haven't already) -> >Mouse. > >You probably have either Alps or Synaptics touchpad. They're >configured differently and different versions have different >features. Just stumble around and take a look. You should see >something that looks related. Thanks Brian. Not sure, but I think possibly that could be it (its a friends laptop, and it is not here right now). I remember seeing the name Synaptics, but the Control Panel Mouse settings were just the standard MS settings, double click and cursor speed, etc. I found nothing there that seemed out of the ordinary. Are you saying there was another Control Panel Mouse icon in there with additional settings?
From: Wayne Fulton on 2 Mar 2005 23:50
>In article <d05l1b$7ns$1(a)gondor.sdsu.edu>, b(a)fake.com says... > >>Touchpads are commonly setup so that a tap on the pad equals a left >>click. Thanks Brian.. You caused me to look more and I found this now: http://learning.nd.edu/tabletpc/faq/touchpad-click.html Sure does sound like the same "problem". |