I recently bought a new laptop (Dell Inspiron). The machine has Windows 7 Home Premium running on it. I'm sure this issue can be corrected in Windows, but I do not know how. That's why I need your help. If nobody can help me, I'll learn in time that I can simply click with the mouse button when I am done scrolling (I'm an old dog that needs to be retrained), but I just have a habit of this workflow when I'm reading. It's more of an annoyance really because I am so used to my XPS mouse pad settings. I've tried fiddling with the mouse settings in Windows and I cannot seem to correct it.
Dell XPS 1330 (mouse pad settings work how I want them to work):
I can quickly double tap (the mouse pad not the button) while my cursor is on a browser up/down scroll bar in a browser window. After the second tap, my finger is still touching the mouse pad. Then I move my finger downward/backward (toward me if the laptop is sitting flat) so the mouse pointer (and the browser scroll bar) moves down. When I lift my finger off the mouse touch pad (because I got to the spot I want to continue reading), the scroll bar is fixed in that spot.
Dell Inspiron N5110 (where mouse pad settings are messed up):
I can quickly double tap (the mouse pad not the button) while my cursor is on a browser up/down scroll bar in a browser window. After the second tap, my finger is still touching the mouse pad. Then I move my finger downward/backward (toward me if the laptop is sitting flat) so the mouse pointer (and the browser scroll bar) moves down. When I lift my finger off the mouse touch pad (because I got to the spot I want to continue reading), the scroll bar continues to move relative to the y position of my mouse pointer. I don't want this to happen. I want the scroll bar to remain fixed. How can I correct this?
