Questions tagged [touchpad]
A touchpad or trackpad is a device, normally on laptops, which does the same thing as a mouse by tracking the movement of the user's fingers.
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Touchpad does not respond when I am holding key on the keyboard
I am experiencing strange problem with using my touchpad and keyboard simultaneously under Windows 7.
I have HP tx2550ew (convertible tablet), and when I hold some key under Windows 7 (eg. ...
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Synaptics - Windows 8.1, updating Synaptics failed
On Windows 8.1, I tried to install the latest Synaptics Touchpad Driver v17.0.19 and it failed for some unknown reasons. Turns out it's problem with Synaptics, not Windows. Synaptics did not "Sign" ...
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Laptop touchpad response badly when on power supply?
I have HP pavilion 2200 series laptop with AMD processor, 1GB RAM, on board nvidia display card. It suddenly cause following problem:
When the adapter is unplugged, the touchpad works correctly and ...
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Disable touch pad for mouse button region on new HP pavillion models?
i bought a new hp pavillion dv6 series laptop. the laptop itself is fine but it has the new hp touchpad mouse which i absolutely hate. its such a stupid problem to have with a computer. the left and ...
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How to disable my netbook's touchpad when a usb mouse is connected
This is the first computer I have ever bought and I couldn't bring it home without a mouse of its own. I'm trying to disable the touchpad but the only option I find is by uninstalling the drivers, ...
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Is there an easy way to disable this laptop's touchpad?
Specifically, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 1525. I'd like to disable the touchpad so that I can re-enable if my mouse were to run out of batteries (so physically breaking the connection to the motherboard ...
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How to change mouse to left handed but keep touchpad right handed?
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I just had my pc reformatted and I have a change in my "Mouse" window. It shows something like this now:
But it used to show something like this:
In the upper picture, you can only swap the ...
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On my netbook, how can I disable the touch pad while I'm typing to avoid bumping it?
I'm getting very frustrated with this. I know I can use an external mouse and disable the touch pad, but that isn't always convenient.
I'm running Windows 7 on an EEEPc 900HA
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How to make the Windows 8 trackpad edge swipe zones smaller?
I'm running Windows 8 on a Lenovo x220 laptop; and have just inadvertently discovered the edge-swipe feature or that brings up the charms or switches between desktop and RT. Only problem is that the ...
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temporarily disable touchpad and keyboad, i.e. babyproofing my linux laptop
Following up with this other question, how can I temporarily disable the touchpad (both movements and buttons) as well as the keyboard in Linux Ubuntu Hardy? I mean, there is a menu for disabling the ...
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Click and drag in windows 7 sticks after holding left click for a couple of seconds.
If I click and drag my mouse anywhere (such as to highlight text, or drag a file), if I continue to hold left click for about 2 seconds, the mouse will act like I'm still dragging after I release the ...
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Delay in mouse movement when using both the keyboard & mouse simultaneously
I got a new Lenovo Flex 2 15 a couple of days ago, and the laptop is working pretty well.
However, when I use the keyboard then quickly attempt to move the mouse with the touchpad, I am unable to move ...
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Jumpy scrolling behavior using Chromium with my touchpad hardware buttons
I am experiencing very jumpy scrolling in Chromium. When use my touchpad hardware buttons to click anywhere on a page, and then use two fingers to scroll, the scrolling gesture will cause Chromium to ...
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Get two-finger scroll on Windows laptop touchpad (like on macbook)?
I have a Dell Latitude laptop. Scrolling using the touchpad is possible by sliding along the right (or bottom) side of the touchpad. This doesn't work too well for me. Is it possible to configure the ...
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Portrait primary display rotates touchpad
I have Windows 7 64bit on a Lenovo T530 laptop (1600x900) with a Lenovo ThinkVision LT2452p monitor (1920x1200). I set up screen resolution like this:
Compose displays.
Set the primary display to ...
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